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
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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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