Call for Papers: Workshop on Language technology for normalisation of less-resourced languages (AfLaT2012/SALTMIL)

Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2011-12-20 08:19

The 8th International Workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (SALTMIL, http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil) and the 4th Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT2012) will be held as a joint effort in Istanbul, in May 2012, as part of the 2012 International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2012). This workshop will take place on Tuesday, 22 May 2012 in the Lütfi Kirdar Istanbul Exhibition and Congress Centre, Istanbul, Turkey.

Papers are invited for the above full-day workshop, in the format outlined below. Most submitted papers will be presented in poster form, though some authors may be invited to present in lecture format.

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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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