Workshop PROGRAM
Sunday, January 19, 2025 | |
| 09:30–09:45 Opening remarks by the Organizing Committee # %chair1 Sane Yagi %aff1 University of Sharjah | |
| 09:45–10:30 Plenary Speaker: Professor Ashraf Alnagar, College of Computing and Informatics, University of Sharjah # %chair1 Sane Yagi %aff1 University of Sharjah | |
| 11:00–12:30 Session 1: Papers # %chair1 Majdi Sawalha %aff1 The University of jordan and Al-Ain University | |
| 11:00–11:30 | Comparative Analysis of Religious Texts: NLP Approaches to the Bible, Quran, and Bhagavad Gita Mahit Nandan A D, Ishan Godbole, Pranav M Kapparad and Shrutilipi Bhattacharjee |
| 11:30–12:00 | Messages from the Quran and the Bible in Mandarin through Factor Analysis with Syntactic and Semantic Tags Kuanlin Liu |
| 12:00–12:30 | Semantic Analysis of Jurisprudential Zoroastrian Texts in Pahlavi: A Word Embedding Approach for an Extremely Under-Resourced, Extinct Language Rashin Rahnamoun and Ramin Rahnamoun |
| 12:30–14:00 Lunch Break | |
| 14:00–15:30 Session 2: Papers # %chair1 Bayan Abu Shawar %aff1 Al-Ain University | |
| 14:00–14:30 | Multi-stage Training of Bilingual Islamic LLM for Neural Passage Retrieval Vera Pavlova |
| 14:30–15:00 | Automated Translation of Islamic Literature Using Large Language Models: Al-Shamela Library Application Mohammad Mohammad Khair and Majdi Sawalha |
| 15:00–15:30 | Automated Authentication of Quranic Verses Using BERT (Bidirectional Encoder Representations from Transformers) based Language Models Khubaib Amjad Alam, Maryam Khalid, Syed Ahmed Ali, Haroon Mahmood, Qaisar Shafi, Muhammad Haroon and Zulqarnain Haider |
| 16:00–17:30 Session 3: Papers # %chair1 Abdallah T. AlShdaifat %aff1 Mohmed Bin Zayed University for Humanities | |
| 16:00–16:30 | MASAQ Parser: A Fine-grained MorphoSyntactic Analyzer for the Quran Majdi Sawalha, Faisal Alshargi, Sane Yagi, Abdallah T. AlShdaifat and Bassam Hammo |
| 16:30–17:00 | Leveraging AI to Bridge Classical Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic for Text Simplification Shatha Altammami |
| 17:00–17:30 | Word boundaries and the morphology-syntax trade-off Pablo Mosteiro and Damián Blasi |
| 17:30–18:15 Session 4: Posters # %chair1 Norhan Abbas %aff1 The University of Leeds | |
| 18:15–close Panel Discussion # %chair1 Organizers | |