AfLaT.org - aflat2009 https://aflat.org/taxonomy/term/244/0 en EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages (AfLaT 2009) - Report https://aflat.org/aflat2009 <!--paging_filter--><p>Best viewed in Firefox 3 or Internet Explorer 8.</p> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Invited Talk: African Language Families and their Structural Properties</H1>Sonja Bosch</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7607.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC=/files/aflat2009/IMG_7607.JPG></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tutorialbosch-090421021321-phpapp01&stripped_title=tutorial-bosch" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=tutorialbosch-090421021321-phpapp01&stripped_title=tutorial-bosch" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Sonja Bosch presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7603.JPG rel=lightbox>1</A>], [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7609.JPG rel=lightbox title="Sonja Bosch and session chair Gilles-Maurice de Schryver">2</A>])<br /> <TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/Tutorial_Bosch.ppt>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages</H1>Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Van Heerden, Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard</tH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7613.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7613.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=badenhorsteacl2009-090421024114-phpapp01&stripped_title=badenhorst-eacl2009" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=badenhorsteacl2009-090421024114-phpapp01&stripped_title=badenhorst-eacl2009" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Jaco Badenhorst presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7612.JPG rel=lightbox>1</A>])<TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/Badenhorst_EACL2009.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=https://www.aflat.org/?q=node/306>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili</H1>Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver</tH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7616.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7616.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=depauwwagachadeschryver-090421021449-phpapp02&stripped_title=depauwwagachadeschryver" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=depauwwagachadeschryver-090421021449-phpapp02&stripped_title=depauwwagachadeschryver" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Guy De Pauw presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7622.JPG rel=lightbox>1</A>], [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7620.JPG rel=lightbox>2</A>])<br /> <TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/depauwwagachadeschryver.ppt>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=https://www.aflat.org/?q=node/307>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools</H1>Christian Chiarcos, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic, Andreas Haida, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes and Malte Zimmermann</tH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7624.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7624.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aflatgrubicritz-090421024113-phpapp02&stripped_title=aflat-grubic-ritz" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=aflatgrubicritz-090421024113-phpapp02&stripped_title=aflat-grubic-ritz" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Mira Grubic presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7625.JPG rel=lightbox title="Julia Ritz and Mira Grubic">1</A>])<br /> <TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/AflatGrubicRitz.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=https://www.aflat.org/?q=node/308>here</a><br /> </table> <!--pagebreak--><!--pagebreak--><table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>A Computational Approach to Yor&ugrave;b&aacute; Morphology</H1>Raphael Finkel and Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7646.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7646.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=yorubakatr-aflt-09-new-090421024712-phpapp02&stripped_title=yorubakatr-aflt-09-new" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=yorubakatr-aflt-09-new-090421024712-phpapp02&stripped_title=yorubakatr-aflt-09-new" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7647.JPG rel=lightbox>1</A>], [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7650.JPG rel=lightbox>2</A>])<br /> <TD valign=top>Download Slides <A href=/files/aflat2009/slides/YORUBAKATR-AFLT-09-New.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/309>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana</H1>Handré Groenewald</tH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7653.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7653.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=usingtechnologytransfertoadvanceautomaticlemmatisationfor-090421021340-phpapp01&stripped_title=using-technology-transfer-to-advance-automatic-lemmatisation-for" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=usingtechnologytransfertoadvanceautomaticlemmatisationfor-090421021340-phpapp01&stripped_title=using-technology-transfer-to-advance-automatic-lemmatisation-for" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Handré Groenewald presenting <TD valign=top>Download Slides <A href=/files/aflat2009/slides/setswana.ppt>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/310>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words</H1>Gertrud Faaß, Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard and Danie Prinsloo</tH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7657.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7657.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=postaggingnsdisambiguatingversion6-090421021326-phpapp01&stripped_title=pos-tagging-ns-disambiguating-version-6" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=postaggingnsdisambiguatingversion6-090421021326-phpapp01&stripped_title=pos-tagging-ns-disambiguating-version-6" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Elsabé Taljard presenting (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7655.JPG rel=lightbox title="Elsabé Taljard and Danie Prinsloo">1</A>], [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7660.JPG rel=lightbox title="Danie Prinsloo and Elsabé Taljard">2</A>])<br /> <TD valign=top>Download Slides <A href=/files/aflat2009/slides/posns.ppt>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/311>here</a><br /> </table> <!--pagebreak--><!--pagebreak--><table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages<br /> </H1>Tunde Adegbola</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7666.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7666.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=new-africanlanguageinitiative-090421024721-phpapp02&stripped_title=new-african-language-initiative" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=new-africanlanguageinitiative-090421024721-phpapp02&stripped_title=new-african-language-initiative" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting <TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/new-AfricanLanguageInitiative.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/313>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa</H1>Tebogo Gumede and Madelaine Plauché</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/SSA41148.JPG rel=lightbox2><IMG SRC=/files/aflat2009/SSA41148tn.jpg height=350 width=265></A><TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="425" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eacl-090421021337-phpapp01&stripped_title=eacl" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayer2.swf?doc=eacl-090421021337-phpapp01&stripped_title=eacl" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Tebogo Gumede presenting <TD valign=top>Download slides <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/EACL.ppt>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/321>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography</H1>Rigardt Pretorius, Ansu Berg, Laurette Pretorius and Biffie Viljoen</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7610.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7610.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=eacl2009setswanaposterfinal-090421082424-phpapp02&stripped_title=e-a-c-l2009-setswana-poster-final" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=eacl2009setswanaposterfinal-090421082424-phpapp02&stripped_title=e-a-c-l2009-setswana-poster-final" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Laurette Pretorius presenting <TD valign=top>Download Poster <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/EACL2009_Setswana_Poster_Final.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/314>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages</H1>Dorothee Beermann and Pavel Mihaylov</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7630.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7630.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=typecraft-athens-090421085729-phpapp01&stripped_title=typecraft-athens" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=typecraft-athens-090421085729-phpapp01&stripped_title=typecraft-athens" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Pavel Mihaylov (right) (also [<A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7664.JPG rel=lightbox>1</A>])<TD valign=top>Download Poster <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/typecraft-athens.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/315>here</a><br /> </table> <!--pagebreak--><!--pagebreak--><table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Towards an Electronic Dictionary of Tamajaq Language in Niger</H1>Chantal Enguehard and Issouf Modi</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7611.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7611.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=postereacl2009-090421082415-phpapp02&stripped_title=poster-e-a-c-l2009" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=postereacl2009-090421082415-phpapp02&stripped_title=poster-e-a-c-l2009" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Issouf Modi and Chantal Enguehard presenting<TD valign=top>Download Poster <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/tamajaq.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/316>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method</H1>Piotr Bański and Beata Wójtowicz</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><IMG SRC=/files/blank.gif height=350 width=265><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=aflat09pbbw-090421232123-phpapp01&stripped_title=af-la-t09-pbbw" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=aflat09pbbw-090421232123-phpapp01&stripped_title=af-la-t09-pbbw" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top><TD valign=top>Download Poster <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/AfLaT09_PB+BW.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/317>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Exploiting Cross-Linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology</H1>Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch</TH><br /> <TR><TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7637.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7637.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=eacl2009pretoriusboschposterfinal-090421085933-phpapp02&stripped_title=exploiting-crosslinguistic-similarities-in-zulu-and-xhosa-computational-morphology" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"/><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always"/><embed src="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=eacl2009pretoriusboschposterfinal-090421085933-phpapp02&stripped_title=exploiting-crosslinguistic-similarities-in-zulu-and-xhosa-computational-morphology" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="477" height="355"></embed></object><p><TR><TH valign=top>Sonja Bosch<TD valign=top>Download Poster <A HREF=/files/aflat2009/slides/EACL2009Pretorius_Bosch_Poster_Final.pdf>here</a><BR>Get paper <A HREF=?q=node/318>here</a><br /> </table> <table> <TR><TH COLSPAN=2><H1>Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging</H1>Björn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker<br /> <TR><TD valign=top><IMG SRC=/files/blank.gif height=350 width=265><br /> <TD valign=top></p> <object style="margin:0px" width="477" height="355"><param name="movie" value="https://static.slidesharecdn.com/swf/ssplayerd.swf?doc=eaclposter-090421090842-phpapp02&stripped_title=eacl-poster-1321204" /><param 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SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7632.JPG"></A></p> <p><TR><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7643.JPG rel=lightbox title="Denis Gikunda (Google Inc.)"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7643.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7648.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7648.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7649.JPG rel=lightbox><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7649.JPG"></A></p> <p><TR><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7651.JPG rel=lightbox title="Denis Gikunda (Google Inc.)"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7651.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7661.JPG rel=lightbox title="Manuela Noske (Microsoft) and Guy De Pauw"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7661.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7662.JPG rel=lightbox title="Issouf Modi, Odetunji Odejobi and Tebogo Gumede"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7662.JPG"></A></p> <p><TR><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/IMG_7663.JPG rel=lightbox title="Jeffrey Micher and Workshop Chair Lori Levin"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/IMG_7663.JPG"></A><br /> <TD valign=top><A HREF=/files/aflat2009/full/Aflat.jpg rel=lightbox title="Lori Levin, Sonja Bosch and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver"><IMG SRC="/files/aflat2009/Aflat.jpg"></A><br /> </TABLE></p> <!--pagebreak--><!--pagebreak--><p> We would like to thank the organizing committee and the program committee for their valued contributions to the workshop.</p> <p><B>ORGANIZING COMMITTEE</B><br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~lsl/ TARGET=_BLANK>Lori Levin</A>:</B> Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (<B>Workshop Chair</B>)<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://www.aflat.org/guy TARGET=_BLANK>Guy De Pauw</A>:</B> University of Antwerp, Belgium | University of Nairobi, Kenya | <A href=https://aflat.org TARGET=_BLANK>AfLaT.org</A> (<B>Workshop Co-Chair</B>)<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://www.ikr.udsm.ac.tz/stafflists.html TARGET=_BLANK>John Kiango</A>:</B> Director, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~climb/people/Klavans.html TARGET=_BLANK>Judith Klavans</A>:</B> University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, USA<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B>Manuela Noske:</B> Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://tshwanedje.com/members/gmds/cv.html TARGET=_BLANK>Gilles-Maurice de Schryver</A>:</B> African Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium | University of the Western Cape, South Africa | <A href=https://aflat.org TARGET=_BLANK>AfLaT.org</A><br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> <B><A HREF=https://www.mopra.org TARGET=_BLANK>Peter Waiganjo Wagacha</A>:</B> School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, Kenya | <A href=https://aflat.org TARGET=_BLANK>AfLaT.org</A></p> <p><B>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</B><br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Rutgers University<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Yiwola Awoyale, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Moussa Bamba, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Sonja Bosch, University of South Africa<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Christopher Cieri, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld, Germany<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Jeff Good, SUNY Buffalo<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Mike Gasser, Indiana University<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Gregory Iverson, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Stephen Larocca, US Army Research Lab<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Michael Maxwell, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Jonathan Owens, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Tristan Purvis, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Antonia Schleicher, University of Wisconsin at Madison<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe University<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Clare Voss, US Army Research Lab<br /> <IMG SRC=/themes/garland/images/menu-leaf.gif> Briony Williams, University of Wales, Bangor</p> https://aflat.org/aflat2009#comments Project / Organisation aflat2009 african languages report workshop Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:01:53 +0000 Guy 322 at https://aflat.org