Centre de calcul

Le centre de calcul est le centre de toute activité informatique à l’Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, il fonctionne 7 jours sur 7 (jusqu’à minuit) et remplit un certain nombre de fonctions qu’on peut classer en unités logiques :

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Centre de documentation

Le Centre de Documentation a pour missions : orientation, réception et diffusion de la documentation au sein de l’Ecole. Le Centre de Documentation est ouvert tous les jours de la semaine jusqu’à 22h30.

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Centre de langues

Crée en 1992 et attaché à la Direction des Etudes, le centre s’est assigné les objectifs suivants :

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Center for Languages (and Computational Linguistics)

Teaching

The Center offers the following courses :

• Arabic Translation Studies
• English for Academic Purposes
• Communication Skills (and French as a Foreign Language)
• Natural Language Processing/Linguistic Data Processing
• History of Sciences/Philosophy

Research

• Selected Research Projects
• “Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship – Morocco” (2011-2012) in collaboration with Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Babson college (United States). Project funded by the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association and Olin College.

Project Leader (Prof. Soudi). Projects co-leader (Professor Benqliliou)

The project aims at Educating students to create innovative solutions to social challenges through design and entrepreneurship that are more just and sustainable and (ii) facilitating greater variety in student participation and preparation, and to contribute to the development of a diverse, globally-engaged, science and engineering workforce.

• English-to-Arabic Knowledge-Based Machine Translation, Research Project funded by the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research (PROTARS III).
  http://www.cnr.ac.ma/protars/protars3/res_protars3.htm

Project Leader (Prof. Soudi)

The project aims at building an interlingua-based English-to-Arabic Machine Translation

• The development of linguistic tools that support Human and Machine Translation between Arabic and Italian.
  This project is in collaboration with « Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale », PISA, Italy and is jointly funded by CNRST (Morocco) and the National Center for Research (Italy)
  http://www.smed.cnr.it/pdf/marocco_joint_projects.pdf

Moroccan Project leader (Prof. Soudi). Italian Project Leader (Prof. Picchi)

Publications

Books:

1. Soudi A., Neumann, G., Zbib, R. and Farghaly A. (2012 see John Benjamins contract on page 7 below): “Challenges for Arabic Empirical Machine Translation”. In John Benjamins’ Natural NLP series.
2. Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007): Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis).
   http://www.springer.com/linguistics/computational+linguistics/book/978-1-4020-6045-8
3. Soudi, A., Gibbon, D., Neumann, G. and Roux, J. C. (Editors) (2008). Proceedings of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008.

CHAPTERS:

1. Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007). Introductory chapter to the book Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis).
2. Habash, N. Soudi, A. and Buckwalter, T. G (2007). Notes on Arabic Transliteration, In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.
3. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Soudi A. (2007). Arabic Computational Morphology : A trade-off between multiple operations and multiple stems. In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.
4. Van den Bosch, A., Marsi, E. and Soudi A. (2007). An integrated memory-based system for morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, and stem identification of Arabic. In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.

Conference Proceedings:

1. A. Soudi (2011). Larger Natural Language Processing Applications, In Proceedings of the research to Applications Conference, Monastir, Tunisia.
2. A. Soudi (2010). Information Technology Industry: case of natural language processing systems, Abdelhadi Soudi. In proceedings of the University-Research Industry: partnering opportunities, Rabat, Morocco.
3. Abdelhadi Soudi (2008). Issues in the analysis and generation of Arabic. In Proceedings of conference Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008.
4. Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2006). IMORPHE: An Inheritance and equivalence based morphology description compiler. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Genova, Italy, May 2006.
5. Marsi, E., van den Bosch, A., Soudi, A. (2005). Memory-based morphological analysis generation and part-of-speech tagging. In Proceedings of the ACL workshop on computational approaches to semitic languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
   http://ilk.uvt.nl/~marsi/download/pubs/arabic-mbma.pdf
6. Kabbaj, A., Bouzouba, K. and Soudi, A. (2005). Amine Platform: an Artificial Intelligence Environment for the Development of Intelligent Systems. Paper accepted for presentation at the Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium, Tetouan, Morocco, June 2005.
7. Soudi, A. and Eisele, A. (2004). Generating an Arabic Full-form lexicon for Bidirectional Morphological Lookup. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.
   http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/publications.php?action=6&last=1&pid=1510
8. Monaco, G. and Soudi, A. (2004). An Emerging Transcontinental Collaborative Research and Educational Agenda in Human Language Technologies. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.
   http://www.lrecconf.org/lrec2004/article.php?id_article=20
9. Soudi, A. (2004). Challenges in the Generation of Arabic sentences from Interlingua representations. In Proceedings of the conference “Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles” TALN’2004, Fez, Maroc, Avril 2004.
   http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/proceed/actes/arabe2004/TAAS26.pdf
10. Marsi E., Soudi, A., and Van den Bosch, A (2003). Memory-based Arabic Morphological Analysis. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Anthwerp, Belgium, December 2003.
    http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/clin2003/abstracts/marsi.html
11. Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2003). Interfacing an Arabic morphology and sentence generation system with an English-to-Arabic Knowledge-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the Information Technology Workshop, jointly organized by the National Science Foundation (USA) and ENSIAS, March, 2003, Morocco.
12. Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi, A. (2003): Enhancements to a Morphological Generator Motivated by English-to-Arabic MT. In Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication, Center for Applied Linguistics, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, January 20-24 2003.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/Cuba_2003.pdf
13. Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2002c): Arabic Morphology Generation: A two-step strategy. In Proceedings of the Arabic and Information Technology International Conference, organized by “le Haut Conseil de la Langue Arabe/[The High Council of Arabic]”, Algiers, Algeria, 28-29 December 2002.
14. Soudi A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002b). A Prototype English-to-Arabic Interlingua-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of The Arabic Processing Workshop, Language Resources Evaluation Conference, 2002, Las Palmas, Spain.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/LREC_Arabic_Workshop_2002.pdf
15. Soudi, A. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002a). Arabic Noun System Generation. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Arabic Processing, Lamanaba University, April 2002, Tunisia.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/Manouba_2002.pdf
16. Soudi, A., Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (2001). A Computational Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic Morphology. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Arabic Processing Workshop, Toulouse, July 2001, France.
    http://www.elsnet.org/arabic2001/soudi.ppt
17. Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi. A, and Teruko M. (2000). Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2000), Seattle, USA.
    http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/A/A00/A00-2012.pdf

Faculty & Staff

Full-time :

• Abdelhadi Soudi (Full Professor and Head of the Center)
• El Batoul Bargach

Part-Time :

• Said Assara
• Meryem Bekkali
• Bennacer El Bouazzati
• Allal Ragoug
• Mohammed Hamdaoui
• Hicham Jirari
• Jamal Elqasri
• Mohammed Qasserass
• Houssine Qasserrass
• Fatiha Oublal
• Nadia Naciri
• Fatima Mghari
• Fatiha Talha
• Rhizlane Tahiri
• Aicha Bettioui
• Sahli
• Najmeddine Soughati

Administrative Staff :

• Mouhssine Daoudi

Events/News

• March 09-11, 2012 : «New Prospects for Science and Education in the MENA region», Hotel Ryad Mogador Kasbah, Marrakech, Morocco.
  http://www.mena-research-education.com/

CV Mr.Soudi

Abdelhadi Soudi, Full Professor
Head of the Center for Languages and Communication
Head of the Interdisciplinary Research Team “Mathematics-Computer Science and Linguistics”
Ambassador Scientist of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale, Avenue Hadj Ahmed Cherkaoui, B-P 753,
Agdal, Rabat , Morocco
e-mail: JLIB_HTML_CLOAKING
Mobile: (+212) 6 61 05 51 09
Fax: (+212) 37 77 10 55

Research Projects/Activities

• Research Poject Principal Investigator of English-to-Arabic Knowledge-Based Machine Translation, Research Project funded by the Moroccan National Center for Scientific and Technical Research
• Project Leader of “Affordable Design and Entrepreneurship – Morocco” (2011-2012) in collaboration with Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering and Babson college i(United States).
• Italy-Morocco Scientific Cooperation/Research Poject Co-Principal Investigator: the development of linguistic tools that support Human and Machine Translation between Arabic and Italian. This project is in collaboration with « Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale », PISA, Italy and is jointly funded by CNRST (Morocco) and the National Center for Research (Italy) / (2004-2005)
  http://www.smed.cnr.it/pdf/marocco_joint_projects.pdf
• Collaborator: an EU-funded project on the development of Mediterranean language resources and tools (NEMLAR project) (2004-2006)
• Host scientist and advisor of a National Science Foundation Research Fellowship grantee from Carnegie Mellon University’s Language Technologies Institute (Pittsburgh, USA). (2001-2007)
• Partnership agreement between the center I direct and the UFR ACSYS : Architecture et Conception de Systèmes (faculty of sciences, Rabat) to co-supervise PhD students as well as to jointly work on HLT research projects.

Awards of Excellence, Research Fellowships / Conference Chair

• 1998: Fulbright Research grant to undertake research at Carnegie Mellon’s Language Technologies Institute (Pittsburgh, USA)
• 2003: Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship to undertake research at the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Saarbrücken, Germany)
• 2008: Award of Excellence for having contributed (by a seminar on Human Language Technologies) to Franklin College / University ‘s (Switzerland) travel program
• 2009: Conference Chair of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation/German Embassy Conference on “Beyond Discipline Boundaries: Building a culture of research and education interdisciplinarity”
• 2008: Co-chair of the LREC’s workshop “Human Language Technologies and NLP within the Arab World.
• 2004: I was appointed expert to evaluate research projects proposed within the framework of European Commission 6th Framework Programme for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration (Future and Emerging Technologies (FET programme).
• 2006: Alexander von Humboldt Return Fellowship
• 2008: Chair of the Alexander von Humboldt conference “Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects”.
• 1997: British Council grant to undertake research at the University of Sussex (July-August)

Publications

Books:

1. Soudi A., Neumann, G., Zbib, R. and Farghaly A. (2012 see John Benjamins contract on page 7 below): “Challenges for Arabic Empirical Machine Translation”. In John Benjamins’ Natural NLP series.
2. Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007): Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis).
   http://www.springer.com/linguistics/computational+linguistics/book/978-1-4020-6045-8
3. Soudi, A., Gibbon, D., Neumann, G. and Roux, J. C. (Editors) (2008). Proceedings of the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008.

Chapters:

1. Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G (2007). Introductory chapter to the book Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods, Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G. In Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis).
2. Habash, N. Soudi, A. and Buckwalter, T. G (2007). Notes on Arabic Transliteration, In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.
3. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Soudi A. (2007). Arabic Computational Morphology : A trade-off between multiple operations and multiple stems. In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.
4. Van den Bosch, A., Marsi, E. and Soudi A. (2007). An integrated memory-based system for morphological analysis, part-of-speech tagging, and stem identification of Arabic. In Arabic Computational Morphology: knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. Kluwer/Springer's series on Text, Speech, and Language Technology (series editors Nancy Ide and Jean Veronis), Editors: Soudi A., Van den Bosch A. and Neumann G.

Conference Proceedings:

1. A. Soudi (2011). Larger Natural Language Processing Applications, In Proceedings of the research to Applications Conference, Monastir, Tunisia.
2. A. Soudi (2010). Information Technology Industry: case of natural language processing systems, Abdelhadi Soudi. In proceedings of the University-Research Industry: partnering opportunities, Rabat, Morocco.
3. Abdelhadi Soudi (2008). Issues in the analysis and generation of Arabic. In Proceedings of conference Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Morocco, 2008.
4. Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2006). IMORPHE: An Inheritance and equivalence based morphology description compiler. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Genova, Italy, May 2006.
5. Marsi, E., van den Bosch, A., Soudi, A. (2005). Memory-based morphological analysis generation and part-of-speech tagging. In Proceedings of the ACL workshop on computational approaches to semitic languages, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.
   http://ilk.uvt.nl/~marsi/download/pubs/arabic-mbma.pdf
6. Kabbaj, A., Bouzouba, K. and Soudi, A. (2005). Amine Platform: an Artificial Intelligence Environment for the Development of Intelligent Systems. Paper accepted for presentation at the Information and Communication Technologies International Symposium, Tetouan, Morocco, June 2005.
7. Soudi, A. and Eisele, A. (2004). Generating an Arabic Full-form lexicon for Bidirectional Morphological Lookup. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.
   http://www.coli.uni-saarland.de/publications.php?action=6&last=1&pid=1510
8. Monaco, G. and Soudi, A. (2004). An Emerging Transcontinental Collaborative Research and Educational Agenda in Human Language Technologies. In Proceedings of Language Resource Evaluation Conference, Lisbon, Portugal, May 2004.
   http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/article.php?id_article=20
9. Soudi, A. (2004). Challenges in the Generation of Arabic sentences from Interlingua representations. In Proceedings of the conference “Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles” TALN’2004, Fez, Maroc, Avril 2004.
   http://www.lpl.univ-aix.fr/jep-taln04/proceed/actes/arabe2004/TAAS26.pdf
10. Marsi E., Soudi, A., and Van den Bosch, A (2003). Memory-based Arabic Morphological Analysis. In Proceedings of the 14th Conference of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, Anthwerp, Belgium, December 2003.
    http://www.cnts.ua.ac.be/clin2003/abstracts/marsi.html
11. Soudi, A. and Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2003). Interfacing an Arabic morphology and sentence generation system with an English-to-Arabic Knowledge-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of the Information Technology Workshop, jointly organized by the National Science Foundation (USA) and ENSIAS, March, 2003, Morocco.
12. Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi, A. (2003): Enhancements to a Morphological Generator Motivated by English-to-Arabic MT. In Proceedings of the Eight International Symposium on Social Communication, Center for Applied Linguistics, SANTIAGO DE CUBA, January 20-24 2003.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/Cuba_2003.pdf
13. Soudi, A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. (2002c): Arabic Morphology Generation: A two-step strategy. In Proceedings of the Arabic and Information Technology International Conference, organized by “le Haut Conseil de la Langue Arabe/[The High Council of Arabic]”, Algiers, Algeria, 28-29 December 2002.
14. Soudi A., Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002b). A Prototype English-to-Arabic Interlingua-based Machine Translation System. In Proceedings of The Arabic Processing Workshop, Language Resources Evaluation Conference, 2002, Las Palmas, Spain.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/LREC_Arabic_Workshop_2002.pdf
15. Soudi, A. Cavalli-Sforza, V. and Jamari, A. (2002a). Arabic Noun System Generation. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Arabic Processing, Lamanaba University, April 2002, Tunisia.
    http://libra.sfsu.edu/~vcs/Manouba_2002.pdf
16. Soudi, A., Violetta Cavalli-Sforza (2001). A Computational Lexeme-Based Treatment of Arabic Morphology. In Proceedings of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Arabic Processing Workshop, Toulouse, July 2001, France.
    http://www.elsnet.org/arabic2001/soudi.ppt
17. Cavalli-Sforza, V., Soudi. A, and Teruko M. (2000). Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy. In Proceedings of the 1st Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2000), Seattle, USA.
    http://acl.ldc.upenn.edu/A/A00/A00-2012.pdf

Reviewing Scientific Publications + Scientific/program committees

• The 7th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, 28 - 30 March, 2010 Cairo, EGYPT. (Scientific committee)
• Association for Computational Linguistics – Area: "Phonology/morphology, tagging and chunking, and word segmentation", Uppsala, Sweden from 11-16 July, 2010 (Program Committee)
• European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Athens, Greece, 2009. (Scientific committee)
• The Association For Machine Translation in the Americas (AMTA), Machine Translation for Semitic Languages (September, 2003), USA. (Scientific committee)
• The 6th International Conference on Informatics and Systems, Natural Language Processing track, Faculty of Computers and Information,Cairo University, Egypt, March 2008 (Scientific committee)
• International Colloquium on Arabic Language Processing, June 18th and 19th 2007, IERA, Rabat, Morocco. ((Scientific committee)
• The Second International Conference on Arabic Resources & Tools, 22-23 Apr-2009, Cairo, Egypt. (Scientific committee)
• Language Resources Evaluation Conference (LREC), European Language Resources Association (ELRA), Arabic Processing workshop (LREC’2002 (Scientific committee)
• Colloqium on Arabic Engineering, (June, 2003), Morocco (co-organizer as well as member of the scientific committee)
• NEMLAR conference on Language Resources and Tools, (Cairo, 2004) (Scientific committee)
• Association of Computational Linguistics’ Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, University of Michigan, June 2005. (program committee)
• I contributed to the initiative of creating of a Special Interest Group (SIG) on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, under the auspices of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Research Visits to International Laboratories

• 2010 (October): Research visit to Misurata University
• 2009 (July-December) Alexander von Humboldt resumption research stay at the Computational Linguistics Department of Heidelberg University, Germany.
• 2008 December: Research visit to the Institute of Computational Linguistics at Zurich University (Zurich, Switzerland).
• 2005 March: Research stay in the Great Plains Region of the United States, funded by the National Science Foundation (US) – Award: NSF0353201. The purpose of the research visit is to establish a Research and Education agenda in the area of Human Language
• Technology (HLT) between Morocco and the United States (mainly the Midwest). I basically discussed this agenda with HLT actors from the Information and Telecommunication Technology Laboratory (University of Kansas), School of Computing and Engineering (University of Missouri-Kansas City) and the departments of Psychology, Computer Science and Continuing Education at Kansas Sate University.
• 2005 December and 2004 December: 4-week research visit to the Institute of Computational Linguistics in Pisa (Italy). The research stay is within the framework of a joint research project on the development of language resources that support machine translation between Italian and Arabic. This research project is jointly funded by CNRST (Morocco) and the National Centre for Research (Italy).
• 2005 and 2004 (July-September) and 2003 (July–Decembe)r : Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Language Technology Lab (DFKI, LT lab), Saarbruecken, Germany. My research focus at DFKI’s LT lab is Arabic computational morphology and Machine Translation (from and to Arabic).
• 2003 (From 18 September to 3 October): Research visit to the Computational Linguistics and Artificial Intelligence Section, University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. I built with a team of researchers in this section a Memory-based system for Arabic morphology analysis.
• 2003 (from 22 december to 27 December: Research visit to the « Centre de Traitement Automatique Des Langues », Université Catholique de Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium.
• 2000 July – September, 1999 August – December, 1998 July - December: Fullbright Visiting Researcher at the Language Technologies Institute, School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University, United States.
• June 2000: Research visit to the Department of Cognitive and Computing Sciences, Sussex University, Brighton, England.
• 1998 September (1 week): Research visit to the department of Linguistics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
• 1997 July-August: Research visit to the Group of Computational Linguistics at the University of Essex, Colchester, England.

Memberships:

• Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL, USA)
• Association pour le Traitement Automatique du Langage (ATAL, France)
• Member of a couple of mailing lists on the computing of Semitic languages
• Founding president of the Alexander von Humboldt-MAGHREB/North Africa Alumni Association
• Founding member of the Moroccan Fulbright Alumni Association