TICAM, the international conference on Amazigh along with information and communication technologies, is a biannual event held at the Royal Institute of Amazigh Culture (IRCAM) by Computer Science Studies, Information Systems and Communications Center (CEISIC).

Since 2004, TICAM became the meeting place for scientists, researchers and professionals interested on information and communication technologies applied to natural languages, and particularly to the Amazigh language. This conference aims to highlight national and international research, to promote young researchers’ works, as well as to provide a representative overview of the state of the art in order to offer promising prospects for the development of this domain.

The fifth edition of this conference will be an opportunity to hear from keynote speakers about theoretical, experimental and applicative advances in their fields of research. Furthermore, this event will be an occasion to organize demonstration workshops to bring to light the challenges of natural language processing and to discuss the new trends of information and communication technologies applied to the Amazigh language during the oral sessions and posters’ presentations.

For more information, kindly consult the attachment

The 43rd Annual Conference on African Linguistics (ACAL) will be held March 15-17, 2012 at Tulane University, New Orleans. The theme of this year’s conference is 'Linguistic Interfaces in African Languages.

Paper Topics:
Priority consideration will be given to papers that specifically address the conference theme and then to papers addressing the following subfields or combinations thereof; however, related topics are also welcome.

• Computational linguistics
  
• Historical linguistics
  
• Language acquisition (i.e., first, second, or additional language)
  
• Language pedagogy
  
• Lexicography
  
• Morphology
  
• Neurolinguistics
  
• Phonetics
  
• Phonology
  
• Pidgin and Creole languages
  
• Pragmatics
  
• Semantics
  
• Sociolinguistics (e.g., code-switching, language contact in Africa and in the African Diaspora, language endangerment, bi- or multi-lingualism, language in African literature, and language planning, spread, use, and variation)
  
• Syntax
  
• Tonology
  
• Sign languages
  
• Gestures
  

The deadline for receipt of abstracts is November 15, 2012. Please be advised that late submissions may not be considered. Because of visa requirements, prospective international participants are urged to submit their abstracts at the earliest date possible.
Participants will be notified of the acceptance of their proposal by December 20, 2011.

For more information, please consult:
https://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/linguistics/43rd-annual-conference-on-african-linguistics/index.cfm

The National Human Language Technology Network (NHN) is a collaborative effort which aims to strengthen synergies between HLT researchers and practitioners in South Africa. Currently, the members of the NHN are most of the major South African tertiary institutions and research councils who are actively involved in HLT R&D activities.

LREC 2008 - 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Palais des Congrès Mansour Eddahbi, MARRAKECH - MOROCCO

MAIN CONFERENCE: 28th, 29th and 30th MAY 2008

WORKSHOPS and TUTORIALS: 26th -27th MAY and 31st MAY- 1st JUNE 2008

Conference web site: https://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2008/

Here's an upcoming conference that plenty of the folks in the AFLAT community might find interesting.

Please check the attached flyer for the call. Also, feel free to distribute the flyer as you see fit.

It doesn't seem like the folks over at UFL know about AFLAT yet, so I suppose I'll post this up here for them. This conference is going to be focusing broadly on African language, but does have a four-talk parallel session of computational interest on the Saturday session.