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Invited Talk: African Language Families and their Structural Properties Sonja Bosch
Sonja Bosch presenting (also [1], [2])	Download slides 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])	Download slides here Get paper here

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])	Download slides here Get paper here

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])	Download slides here Get paper here

A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology Raphael Finkel and Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi
Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting (also [1], [2])	Download Slides here Get paper here

Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana Handré Groenewald
Handré Groenewald presenting	Download Slides here Get paper here

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])	Download Slides here Get paper here

Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages Tunde Adegbola
Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi presenting	Download slides here Get paper here

Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa Tebogo Gumede and Madelaine Plauché
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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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Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages Dorothee Beermann and Pavel Mihaylov
Pavel Mihaylov (right) (also [1])	Download Poster here Get paper here

Towards an Electronic Dictionary of Tamajaq Language in Niger Chantal Enguehard and Issouf Modi
Issouf Modi and Chantal Enguehard presenting	Download Poster here Get paper here

A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method Piotr Bański and Beata Wójtowicz
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Exploiting Cross-Linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology Laurette Pretorius and Sonja Bosch
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Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging Björn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw and Lars Asker
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An Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS) Steven Moran
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We would like to thank the organizing committee and the program committee for their valued contributions to the workshop.

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Lori Levin: Language Technologies Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, USA (Workshop Chair)
Guy De Pauw: University of Antwerp, Belgium | University of Nairobi, Kenya | AfLaT.org (Workshop Co-Chair)
John Kiango: Director, Institute of Kiswahili Research, University of Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania
Judith Klavans: University of Maryland, Institute for Advanced Computer Studies, USA
Manuela Noske: Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, USA
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: African Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Belgium | University of the Western Cape, South Africa | AfLaT.org
Peter Waiganjo Wagacha: School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, Kenya | AfLaT.org

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Akinbiyi Akinlabi, Rutgers University
Yiwola Awoyale, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium
Moussa Bamba, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium
Alan Black, Carnegie Mellon University
Sonja Bosch, University of South Africa
Christopher Cieri, University of Pennsylvania, Linguistic Data Consortium
Robert Frederking, Carnegie Mellon University
Dafydd Gibbon, University of Bielefeld, Germany
Jeff Good, SUNY Buffalo
Mike Gasser, Indiana University
Gregory Iverson, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language
Stephen Larocca, US Army Research Lab
Michael Maxwell, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language
Jonathan Owens, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language
Tristan Purvis, University of Maryland, Center for Advanced Study of Language
Antonia Schleicher, University of Wisconsin at Madison
Tanja Schultz, Karlsruhe University
Clare Voss, US Army Research Lab
Briony Williams, University of Wales, Bangor

People's names across the numerous African ethnic groups have a meaning tagged to them. These names are drawn from various sources that include Seasons, Times, Events, Places, Behaviour and other special considerations. An African name defines an individual because it goes beyond an identity.