Program - AfLaT2012/SALTMIL joint workshop on Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages

Submitted by Guy on Mon, 2012-04-16 14:16

A full-day workshop at LREC 2012
Tuesday, 22 May 2012.
Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre, Istanbul, Turkey
[register here]


09:30–10:30
Invited Talk - How to build language technology resources for the next 100 years
Sjur Moshagen Nørstebø, Sámi Parliament
10:30–11:00
Coffee Break

11:00–13:00 Resource Creation
11:00–11:30 Issues in Designing a Spoken Corpus of Irish
Elaine Uí Dhonnchadha, Alessio Frenda and Brian Vaughan
11:30–12:00 Learning Morphological Rules for Amharic Verbs Using Inductive Logic Programming
Wondwossen Mulugeta and Michael Gasser
12:00–12:30 The Database of Modern Icelandic Inflection
Kristín Bjarnadóttir
12:30–13:00 Natural Language Processing for Amazigh Language: Challenges and Future Directions
Fadoua Ataa Allah and Siham Boulaknadel
13:00–14:00
Lunch Break

14:00–16:00 Resource Use
14:00–14:30 Compiling Apertium morphological dictionaries with HFST and using them in HFST applications
Tommi A. Pirinen and Francis M. Tyers
14:30–15:00 Automatic structuring and correction suggestion system for Hungarian clinical records
Borbála Siklósi, György Orosz, Attila Novák and Gábor Prószéky
15:00–15:30 Constraint Grammar based Correction of Grammatical Errors for North Sámi
Linda Wiechetek
15:30–16:00 Toward a Rule-Based System for English-Amharic Translation
Michael Gasser
16:00–16:30
Coffee Break

16:30–17:30 Poster Session
 

• Technological Tools for Dictionary and Corpora Building for Minority Languages: Example of the French-based Creoles – Paola Carrion Gonzalez and Emmanuel Cartier
• Describing Morphologically-rich Languages using Metagrammars: a Look at Verbs in Ikota – Denys Duchier, Brunelle Magnana Ekoukou, Yannick Parmentier, Simon Petitjean and Emannuel Schang
• A Corpus of Santome – Tjerk Hagemeijer, Iris Hendrickx, Abigail Tiny and Haldane Amaro
• The Tagged Icelandic Corpus (MM) – Sigrún Helgadóttir, Ásta Svavarsdóttir, Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson, Kristín Bjarnadóttir and Hrafn Loftsson
• Semi-automated extraction of morphological grammars for Nguni with special reference to Southern Ndebele – Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch
• Tagging and Verifying an Amharic News Corpus – Björn Gambäck
• Resource-Light Bantu Part-of-Speech Tagging – Guy De Pauw, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Janneke van de Loo
• POS Annotated 50M Corpus of Tajik Language – Gulshan Dovudov, Vít Suchomel and Pavel Šmerk
17:30–17:45
Closing Session

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SLTU'12 Registration Deadline & Program

Submitted by Guy on Mon, 2012-04-16 14:19

The third International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU'12) will be held at the Monkey Valley Resort (near Cape Town, South Africa, http://www.monkeyvalleyresort.com) on 7-9 May 2012.

Please note that registration closes on 27 April 2012.

The program is also now available here.

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Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Submitted by Guy on Fri, 2011-12-09 08:43

AfLaT2011, the Third Workshop on African Language Technology, was organized as a breakout session of the AGIS11 conference (Action Week for Global Information Sharing) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It marked the first time an AfLaT workshop took place on the African continent. AfLaT2011 featured ten presentations on a variety of topics and languages.
We want to thank the presenters and participants for their contributions to the workshop, as well as the organizers of AGIS11 to allow us to collocate the AfLaT workshop with their wonderful conference.



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Language Resources & Evaluation - Special Issue on African Language Technology

Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2011-09-20 10:53
The Special Issue on African Language Technology for the journal Language Resources and Evaluation is out now! You can order this issue (vol45(3)) or download individual papers through SpringerLink.

We would like to thank all authors and reviewers who have worked hard to make this special issue happen.

 

[Contributions]

  • De Pauw et al. Introduction to the special issue on African Language Technology
  • Grover et al. The South African Human Language Technology Audit
  • Badenhorst et al. Collecting and evaluating speech recognition corpora for 11 South African languages
  • Steinberger et al. Expanding a multilingual media monitoring and information extraction tool to a new language: Swahili
  • De Pauw et al. Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English—Swahili
  • Moran An ontology for accessing transcription systems
  • Chiarcos et al. Information structure in African languages: corpora and tools
  • Scannell Statistical unicodification of African languages


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    Go Swahili . org

    Submitted by Gilles-Maurice on Thu, 2011-03-10 09:48
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