-- Mr Bachir Imad, al-Hayat Information Centre. Prof. Brockett, Adrian, Darlington. Mr Clews, John, John Clews Associates. Goraine, H., School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University. Mr Knight, Andrew. Mr Rochford, Thomas, Computer Services, Anglia Polytechnic University. Dr Usher, M, School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University. USA--- Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc. Ms Bernstein, Debbie , Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute. Dr Hassibi, Khosrow, Mitek Systems Inc., Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG). Dr Jiyad, Mohammed, Mount Holyoke College. Dr al-Khatib, Hasan, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University. Mr Martin, Jeffery, Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute. Mr Mcconnell, J., Apple Computers, Inc. Dr Roochnik, Paul, Language Analysis Systems, Inc. Dr Saba, Mohamed. II. Provisional List of Papers ------------------------------- "Arabic computer-based assistant systems for handicapped", MrEmam, Ossama and Mr Hashish, M., IBM Cairo Scientific Center, Egypt. "Automatic generation of the Arabic theoretical lexicon using morphematic structure combination", Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohammad, Dr Mounir Zrigui and Mr Slim Boussetta, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "Automatic translation of Arabic language to English and vice versa", Dr Mashhour, Ahmad and Dr Jazaa, Abed, Yarmouk University, Jordan. "The basic structure of a formal Arabic-English verbal lexicon", Dr Ditters, Everhard, TCMO, University of Nijmegen, the Netherlands. "Books in Arabic in the Danish library system" Ass Prof. Wien, Charlotte, Centre for Contemporary Middle Eastern Studies, Odense Universitet, Denmark. "Character recognition of Arabic script" Dr al-Khatib, Hasan, School of Engineering, Santa Clara University USA, Mr Ismail, Mohamed, Mr Korany, Ezzat and Mr Emam, Ashraf, Information Technology Department, Alexandria University, Egypt. "A complete assisted language learning programme used at a Spanish university", Dr Baez, Valerio, Departmento de Humanidades, Univ. Carlos III de Madrid, and Dr H. Berge, Spain. "A computer-assisted Arabic poetry prosody", Dr SharafJEldin, A., King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. "A computer-based tutoring system for modern standard Arabic", Mr Martin, Jeffery and Ms Bernstein, Debbie, Training Systems Research Division, Army Research Institute, USA. "Computer recognition of Arabic script based text: the state of the art", Dr Ahmed, P. and Mr Mathkour, Hassan, College of Computer and Information Science, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia. "Computerized critical editions of medieval Arabic manuscripts. Requests for high standard features in software applications", Dr,JWedel, Gerhard, Freie Universitt, Berlin, Germany. "Connectivity between Arabic systems: a case study in reference to the Chinese systems", Prof. Hsu, Cheng-Hsiang, Department of Arabic Language and Literature, National Chengchi University, Republic of China. "Description of some support programs (utilities) applied in the Lirica Persica research project" , Ms.JCorreale, Daniela, University of Venice, Dipartimento di Studi Eurasiatici, Italy. "Detection and correction of misspelled isolated words in Arabic language", Dr Zrigui, Mounir and Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohamed, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "The development of Arabic support on the Macintosh", Mr Mcconnell, J. and Abdelazim, H., Apple Computers, Inc., USA. "The encoding of non-Latin scripts under MS-DOS", Zemnek, Petr, Charles University, Czech Republic. "Escala: musical measure and notation of oriental scales", DrJSnches, Francesco, Instituto de Electrnica de Comunicaciones, Univ Politecnica-Madrid, Spain. "An intelligent teaching system of Arabic language", DrJal-Ajeeli, Abid and Ms al-Rujoob, Khulode, Department of Computer Science, Yarmouk University, Jordan. "The IRSIT Arabic text-to-speech synthesis system", Mr Ghazali, Salem, Mr Ben Miled, Z., Dr Zrigui, M. and Abdennader, S., Institut Regional des Sciences Informatiques et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. "KHOOL: Khabeer object orientated language" Dr Aref, Mustafa, MrJal-Muhtaseb, Husni and Mr al-Kulaib, Ali, Information and Computer Science Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Saudi Arabia. "Logic compression of multi-lingual dictionary" Mr Meddeb Hamrouni, Boubaker, Groupe d'Etudes pour la Traduction Automatiqu and WinSoft, France. "Machine-printed Arabic OCR using neural networks", DrJHassibi, Khosrow, Automatic Document Recognition Group (ADRG), Mitek Systems Inc., USA. "Multi-lingual (Arabic & Roman) strategies for checking Arabic name dataJbases", Dr Roochnik, Paul, Language Analysis Systems, Inc., USA. "A multimedia archaeological knowledge-based system", MrJFarah, Mansour, Gaudic, R., Malek, M. and R. Razouk, Department of Computer Engineering, Higher Institute of Applied Science and Technology, Syria. "A new approach to Arabic character recognition in multi-font document", Mr Fehri, Mohammed and Prof. Ben Ahmed, Mohamed, Laboratoire RIADI, ENSI (Universit Tunis II) - Centre National de l'Information, Tunisia. "New approach to the automatic classification of symbol's image: automatic classification of Kufi letters from early Qur'anic MSS", Mr Kondybaev, Nurlan, Institute of Oriental Studies of Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg branch, Russia. "An overview of the application of multi-media computer based training for Arabic and Persian speakers", Mr Darabi Golshani, A., School of IT & Maths, Edith Cowan University, Australia. "Pan-Arabic script computing: implication for creating systems, fonts, printing and data base applications", Mr Clews, John, John Clews Associates, UK. "Printed Arabic text recognition", Dr Usher, M. and Goraine, H., School of Engineering and Information Sciences, Reading University, UK. "A proposal for an Arabic standard code for information interchange", DrJSaba, Mohamed, USA. "Steps towards Arabizing LATEX", Prof. Lagally, Klaus, Institut fr Informatik, Universitt Stuttgart, Germany. "Technology, proficiency and the integrative culture - learning process", Dr Jiyad, Mohammed, Mount Holyoke College, USA. "Torjomane: An Arabic-to-English computer assisted translation system", Mr Labed, L., Salhi, R., Garbout, N., and Mr Ghazali, Salem, Institut Regional des Sciences Information et des Telecommunications, Tunisia. "The use of computer to format and produce printed Arabic indexes for daily newspaper", Mr Bachir, Imad, al-Hayat Information Centre, UK. "User evaluation of Aldoc information system", Mr Ubaidly Ubaidly, Dilmun Publishing Ltd., Cyprus. "Using Urdu page layout. 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