CORPUS WEEK at Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa 25 - 28 March 2013
Submitted by Guy on Wed, 2013-02-13 12:07Corpus Linguistics "in the very very South"
We are pleased to announce the first in a series of annual meetings intended to draw together researchers in Southern Africa and beyond who work with corpora - or who would like to! A blend of conference presentations, networking sessions and training workshops, Corpus Week is aimed at sharing experience and expertise, as well as inspiring researchers from diverse areas of linguistics and other disciplines to see the potential for incorporating corpus methods in their work.
Expressions of interest in getting involved are now invited - whether you would like to offer a training workshop, present corpus research or just come and meet like-minded researchers, you would be very welcome. The meeting will offer something for everyone, from the experienced researcher to the intrigued newbie.
Confirmed contributors:
Bertus van Rooy
Danie Prinsloo
Ramesh Krishnamurthy
Sylvia Jaworska
For more information or to submit your expression of interest, please
contact Sally Hunt at S [dot] Hunt [at] ru [dot] ac [dot] za or +27 46 603 8105.
Dr Sally Hunt
Department of English Language and Linguistics
Rhodes University
Grahamstown
South Africa
Tel: +27 46 6038105
Joint workshop on Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages (AfLaT2012/SALTMIL) - Report
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2012-07-10 14:23
On May 22nd 2012, SALTMIL and AfLaT held a full-day workshop on "Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages". This was a satellite workshop preceding the biennial LREC (Language Resources and Evaluation Conference) in Istanbul, Turkey.
The program started with the invited talk presented by Sjur Moshagen Nørstebø, followed by two sessions of four oral presentations and a poster session with eight contributed poster papers. All the presentations and posters stimulated many questions and discussions.
At 17.30, after a brief presentation by Francis Tyers and Guy De Pauw, an interesting discussion took place on "Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages" and then the workshop was closed by thanking the audience for their participation in the whole workshop.
About fourty five people were present in total, from a wide range of countries, and representing work on a variety of less resourced languages.
Web Resources for African Languages
Submitted by Guy on Fri, 2013-05-03 07:05Previously AfricanLanguages.Org. This site is no longer maintained.
SaLTMiL 8 - AfLaT2012 Proceedings
Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2012-07-12 10:25
Proceedings of the Workshop on Language Technology for Normalisation of Less-Resourced Languages (SaLTMiL 8 - AfLaT2012)| Individual Papers (related to African Language Technology) |
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| Learning Morphological Rules for Amharic Verbs Using Inductive Logic Programming Wondwossen Mulugeta and Michael Gasser |
| Natural Language Processing for Amazigh Language: Challenges and Future Directions Fadoua Ataa Allah and Siham Boulaknadel |
| 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 |
| 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 |
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.
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