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		<title>Sina Institute organizes the 2nd Palestinian Symposium on Computational Linguistics and Arabic Content (iArabic’2013)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English &#124; عربي Sina Institute, in Birzeit University organized the 2nd Palestinian Symposium on “Computational Linguistics and Arabic Content” on April 20, 2013, with the purpose of addressing the latest contributions in multilingual/Arabic language technologies to encourage and develop further research; as well as, enabling and reinforcing cooperation opportunities between researchers in IT, linguistics and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/iarabic2013en/</link>
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		<title>Sina Institute’s keynote speech “Writing a Competitive Proposal” at Tempus Info Day</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sina Institute was invited to give a keynote speech about its success in proposal writing and especially its success in implementing the eGovernement project at the Tempus Information Day, which was organized by Palestine Tempus Office, on 16th of January 2013. 300 academics from Palestinian universities, as well as officials from the EU and Palestinian [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/tempus-information-day/</link>
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		<title>Master Thesis at Birzeit University on Mapping between the Arabic Ontology and the English WordNet</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Mohammed Melhem defended his Master thesis under the supervision of Dr. Mustafa Jarrar, and committee members Dr. Bassem Sayrafi and Dr. Hashem Tamimi. The title of the thesis is: Advanced Matching Function towards linking Arabic Ontology with the English WordNet. Mr. Mohammed, who is a researcher at in Sina institute, presented his thesis, illustrating [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/melhem-thesis-defense/</link>
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		<title>At eAGE’12 conference in Dubai: Europe-Palestine Research Cooperation – Ongoing Projects at Sina Institute at Birzeit University.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sina Institute was invited to present its EU cooperation, during December 12-13, 2012, at the 2nd International conference on Integrating Arab e-Infrastructure in a Global Environment (eAGE’12), held at Zayed University, Dubai,  and organized by the Arab States Research and Education Network (ASREN). The director of the Sina Institute for Knowledge Engineering and Arabic Technologies, Dr. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/eage-12/</link>
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		<title>The Palestinian e-Government Academy (at Birzeit University) Celebrating the End of its Professional Training Program</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English &#124; عربي The Palestinian e-Government Academy (at Birzeit University) Celebrating the End of its Professional Training Program The Palestinian e-Government Academy (initiated and hosted at Birzeit University) organized a graduation ceremony for the first two batches of the professional training program that was developed and implemented by the PalGov Project (funded by EU Tempus), [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/the-palestinian-e-government-academy-graduates-the-first-two-batches-of-its-professional-training-program/</link>
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		<title>Cultural Heritage Meeting in Paris</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SIERA partners conducted a technical meeting in Paris (21/9/2012) , the meeting was dedicated to &#8220;TPM &#8211; Extending Michael thesaurus with Arabic &#8211; Building the Bethlehem thesaurus&#8221;. Where several issues related to extending Michael with Arabic were discussed , such as how to extend Michael&#8217;s functionality to allow searching in Arabic , how to extend [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/cultural-heritage-meeting-in-paris/</link>
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		<title>Lexical Semantic meeting in Trento</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SIERA partners conducted a technical meeting in Trento (15-20 July 2012) to discuss the upcoming deliverables in “WP2-Networking and Research Setup” workpackage. The meeting was co-located with First Interdisciplinary Summer School on Ontological Analysis in University of Trento, which was an opportunity for the project, for dissemination and networking. Several issues were discussed in this [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/siera-wp2-meeting-in-trento-italy/</link>
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		<title>Four Ministries Signed an MoU with Sina Institute at Birzeit University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English &#124; عربي A Memorandum of Understanding has been signed (at the end of the First National Conference on e- Governance and e- Services) between Sina Institute at Birzeit University and four Palestinian Ministries: Ministry of Information Technology and Communication, Ministry of Labor, Ministry of Transportation, and Ministry of Local Governance. This MoU aims to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/mou-en/</link>
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		<title>Workshop on Proposal Writing &amp; International Fundraisingd by Sina Institute at Birzeit University</title>
		<description><![CDATA[English &#124; عربي A workshop on proposal writing and international fundraising was organized by Sina Institute at Birzeit University. Many topics were introduced and discussed by local and international experts in the field, including how to write competitive proposals, especially FP7 proposals, the best practices and experiences in project management and proposal writing, in addition [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/fp7workshop-en/</link>
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		<title>The First National Conference on e-Governance and e-Services</title>
		<description><![CDATA[To watch Conference Videos please click the session name in Conference website]]></description>
		<link>http://sina.birzeit.edu/news-and-events/the-first-national-conference-on-e-governance-and-e-services/</link>
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