Program The George Washington University Marvin Center Wednesday, June 14, 2006

	Technology Track	Language Track
7:30	Registration & Breakfast
8:30	Keynote Address Tongue-tied: Implications and Explanations for America’s Resistance to Language and Culture Learning Dr. Janet Breslin-Smith Professor of National Security Policy, National War College
9:30	Linguistic Enhancements to National Harmony Benson Margulies
10:15	Break
10:30	Tutorial — Understanding Unicode 5.0 Ken Glidden	Introduction to the Basis Transliteration Assistant Melissa Lucius & Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D
11:15	Tutorial — Designing Large-Scale Multilingual Systems Benson Margulies	Introduction to the Basis Arabic Editor and Linguist’s Workbench Mary Galvin & Bernard Greenberg
12:00	Lunch Break
12:45	What Every Software Developer Needs to Know About Arabic Bernard Greenberg	Romanized Persian in On-line Communications Sabiha Imran
1:30	What Language is That? Using the Rosette Language Identifier Nobuo Otsuka	Looking Behind the Name: Etymology of Arabic Names Zina Saadi
2:15	Break
2:30	Putting the Rosette Global Name Matcher to Work David Murgatroyd	Reverse Transliteration of Chatroom Arabic Eva Sanchez & Arnie Chien, Ph.D.
3:15	A Crash Course in Digital Forensics Brian Carrier, Ph.D.	Orthographic Variations in Arabic Corpora Bushra Zawaydeh, Ph.D. & Zina Saadi
4:00	Break
4:15	Building Applications with the Rosette Linguistics Platform Steven Cohen & Ken Glidden	Chinese Language Analysis: Solving the Chinese Puzzle Joe Ho
5:00	Closing Discussion & Feedback