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<P align=center><FONT size=4>LULCL, Lesser Used Languages & Computer
Linguistics</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT size=4>EURAC research, European Academy Bolzano/Bozen,
Italy</FONT></P>
<P align=center><FONT size=4>27th October-28th October 2005</FONT></P>
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href="https://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/conference2005_programme.htm">Provisional
program:</A></STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3><U><STRONG>Thursday 27th October 2005</STRONG></U></FONT> </P>
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<P><FONT size=3>08:30-09:30 <U>Registration</U> </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>09:30-10:00 <U>Opening </U></FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>10:00-10:45 Spracherneuerung im Rätoromanischen: Linguistische,
soziale und politische Aspekte</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Clau Solèr (University of Geneva) </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>10:45-11:15 <U>Coffee break</U> </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>11:15-11:45 Designing a Sardinian Corpus: problems and
perspectives</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Nicoletta Puddu (Università di Pavia) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>11:45-12:15 Il progetto "Zimbarbort" per il recupero del
patrimonio linguistico cimbro</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Luca Panieri (Istituto Cimbro di Luserna) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>12:15-12:45 The relevance of lesser used languages for
theoretical linguistics: the case of Cimbrian and the support of the TITUS
corpus</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Alessandra Tomaselli (Università di Verona), Ermenegildo Bidese
(Università di Verona/ Studio Teologico Accademico Bressanone), Cecilia Poletto
(Padova-CNR) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>12:45-14:30 <U>Lunch break</U> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>14:30-15:00 Il progetto VERBA, Una rete di strumenti web-based
di comunità linguistiche per permettere alle lingue meno diffuse di accedere a
strumenti d'eccellenza nel campo del trattamento automatico della
lingua</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Carlo Zoli (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Linguistica di Open Lab),
Diego Corraine (Ufitziu pro Sa Limba Sarda) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>15:00-15:30 Speech-to-Speech Translation for Catalan</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluation and Language resources
Distribution Agency), Elisabet Comelles (TALP - Centre de Tecnologies i
Aplicacions del Llenguatge i la Parla, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya),
David Farwell (Institució Catalana de Reserca i Estudis Avançats TALP - Centre
de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i la Parla, Universitat Politècnica
de Catalunya) </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>15:30-16:00 SpeechCluster: a speech database builder's
multitool</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Ivan Uemlianin (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, Bangor)
</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>16:00-16:30 <U>Coffee break </U></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>16:30-17:00 XNLRDF, A Framework for the Description of Natural
Language Resources. A proposal and first implementation</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Oliver Streiter (National University of Kaohsiung), Mathias
Stuflesser (Eurac research, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>17:00-17:30 Towards Effective and Robust Strategies for Finding
Web Resources for Lesser Used Languages</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Baden Hughes (Department of Computer Science and Software
Engineering, University of Melbourne) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3><STRONG>Friday 28th October 2005 </STRONG></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>09:00-09:45 Implementing NLP-Projects for Small Languages:
Instructions for Sponsors, Strategies for Developers</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Oliver Streiter (National University of Koahsiung) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>09:45-10:15 Creating word class tagged corpora for Northern
Sotho by linguistically informed bootsstrapping</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Danie Prinsloo (Department of African Languages, University of
Pretoria, South Africa), Ulrich Heid (IMS-CL, Institut für maschinelle
Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>10:15-10:45 A comparison of approaches towards word class
tagging: disjunctively vs conjunctively written bantu languages</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Elsabé Taljard (University of Pretoria), Sonja E. Bosch
(University of South Africa) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>10:45-11:15 <U>Coffee break</U> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>11:15-11:45 Grammar-based language technology for the Sámi
languages</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Trond Trosterud (Universitetet i Tromsø) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>11:45-12:15 Annotation of documents for electronic edition of
Judeo-Spanish texts: problems and solutions</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Soufiane Rouissi (Université de Bordeaux 3, Cemic -Gresic), Ana
Stulic (Université de Bordeaux 3, Ameriber) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>12:15-12:45 Computing Non-Concatenative Morphology: the Case of
Georgian</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Olya Gurevich (UC Berkeley)</FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>12:45-14:30 <U>Lunch break </U></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>14:30-15:00 The Igbo Language and Computer Linguistics: Problems
and Prospects</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Chinedu Uchechukwu (Bramberg, Germany) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>15:00-15:30 Il ladino fra polinomia e standardizzazione:
l'apporto della linguistica computazionale</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Evelyn Bortolotti, Sabrina Rasom (Istitut Cultural Ladin "Majon
di Fascegn" ) </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>15:30-16:00 The Welsh National On-line Database</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Dewi Jones, Delyth Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales,
Bangor) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>16:00-16:30 <U>Coffee break</U> </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>16:30-17:00 Lexicelt: an on-line Welsh/Irish
Dictionary</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Delyth Prys, Dewi Evans (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales,
Bangor) </FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3></FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>17:00-17:30 Stealth Learning with an on-line dog</FONT></P>
<P><FONT size=3>Ambrose Choy, Gruffudd Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of
Wales, Bangor) </FONT></P>
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<P><FONT size=3>17:30-18:00 <U>Conclusions</U></FONT></P>
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