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Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Guy — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:43:36 +0000

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.

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Guy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:33:29 +0000

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?
Justus Roux

Abibitumi Kasa: Afrikan (African) Language + Liberation Institutes

Akyeame_Kwame — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:15:28 +0000

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EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages (AfLaT 2009) - Report

Guy — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:01:53 +0000

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Invited Talk: African Language Families and their Structural Properties Sonja Bosch

Sonja Bosch presenting (also [1], [2])	Download slides here

Invited Talk: African Language Families and their Structural Properties

Sonja Bosch

Sonja Bosch presenting (also [1], [2])

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Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Van Heerden, Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard

Jaco Badenhorst presenting (also [1])	Download slides here Get paper here

Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages

Jaco Badenhorst, Charl Van Heerden, Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard

Jaco Badenhorst presenting (also [1])

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The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

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The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili

Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha and Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

Guy De Pauw presenting (also [1], [2])

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Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools Christian Chiarcos, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic, Andreas Haida, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes and Malte Zimmermann

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Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools

Christian Chiarcos, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic, Andreas Haida, Katharina Hartmann, Julia Ritz, Anne Schwarz, Amir Zeldes and Malte Zimmermann

Mira Grubic presenting (also [1])

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A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology Raphael Finkel and Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi

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A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology

Raphael Finkel and Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi

Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting (also [1], [2])

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Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana Handré Groenewald

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Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana

Handré Groenewald

Handré Groenewald presenting

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Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words Gertrud Faaß, Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard and Danie Prinsloo

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Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words

Gertrud Faaß, Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard and Danie Prinsloo

Elsabé Taljard presenting (also [1], [2])

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Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages Tunde Adegbola

Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting	Download slides here Get paper here

Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages

Tunde Adegbola

Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting

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Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa Tebogo Gumede and Madelaine Plauché

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Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa

Tebogo Gumede and Madelaine Plauché

Tebogo Gumede presenting

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Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography Rigardt Pretorius, Ansu Berg, Laurette Pretorius and Biffie Viljoen

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Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography

Rigardt Pretorius, Ansu Berg, Laurette Pretorius and Biffie Viljoen

Laurette Pretorius presenting