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.

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Web Resources for African Languages

Submitted by Guy on Fri, 2013-05-03 07:05
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Previously AfricanLanguages.Org. This site is no longer maintained.

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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)
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

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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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