<div class="gmail_quote"><br>=============================================================<br> "Collaboration: interoperability between people in the creation of<br>language resources for less-resourced languages"<br>
<br> LREC 2008 Pre-Conference Workshop<br><br> May 27th, 2008, Marrakesh<br><br> Program and Abstracts<br><br><a href="http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/en/activities/workshops/lrec-saltmil-2008-workshop-programme.html" target="_blank">http://ixa2.si.ehu.es/saltmil/en/activities/workshops/lrec-saltmil-2008-workshop-programme.html</a><br>
=============================================================<br><br>In recent years, linguists across the world have realised the need to<br>document endangered languages immediately, and to publish the raw<br>data. This raw data can be transformed automatically (or with the help<br>
of volunteers) into resources for basic speech and language<br>technology. It thus seems necessary to extend the scope of recent<br>workshops on speech and language technology beyond technological<br>questions of interoperability between digital resources: the focus<br>
will be on the human aspect of creating and disseminating language<br>resources for the benefit of endangered and non-endangered<br>less-resourced languages.<br><br> PROGRAMME: "Collaboration: interoperability between people in the<br>
creation of language resources for less-resourced languages"<br><br>14:30-14:35 Welcome<br><br>14:35-15:05 Icelandic Language Technology Ten Years Later<br>Eiríkur Rögnvaldsson<br><br>15:05-15:35 Human Language Technology Resources for Less Commonly<br>
Taught Languages: Lessons Learned Toward Creation of Basic Language<br>Resources<br>Heather Simpson, Christopher Cieri, Kazuaki Maeda, Kathryn Baker, and<br>Boyan Onyshkevych<br><br>15:35-16:05 Building resources for African languages<br>
Karel Pala, Sonja Bosch, and Christiane Fellbaum<br><br>16:05-16:45 COFFEE BREAK<br><br>16:45-17:15 Extracting bilingual word pairs from Wikipedia<br>Francis M. Tyers and Jacques A. Pienaar<br><br>17:15-17:45 Building a Basque/Spanish bilingual database for speaker<br>
verification<br>Iker Luengo, Eva Navas, Ińaki Sainz, Ibon Saratxaga, Jon Sanchez, Igor<br>Odriozola, Juan J. Igarza and Inma Hernaez<br><br>17:45-18:15 Language resources for Uralic minority languages<br>Attila Novák<br>
<br>18:15-18:45 Eslema. Towards a Corpus for Asturian<br>Xulio Viejo, Roser Saurí and Angel Neira<br><br>18:45-19:00 Annual General Meeting of the SALTMIL SIG<br><br><br>WORKSHOP ORGANISERS<br><br> * Briony Williams, Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University,<br>
Wales, UK<br> * Mikel Forcada, Departament de Llenguatges i Sistemes<br>Informŕtics, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain<br> * Kepa Sarasola, Department of Computer Languages, University of<br>the Basque Country<br><br>PROGRAMME COMMITTEE<br>
<br> * Briony Williams: Bangor University, Wales, UK<br> * Mikel Forcada: Universitat d'Alacant, Spain<br> * Kepa Sarasola: University of the Basque Country<br> * Atelach Alemu Argaw: Stockholm University, Sweden<br>
* Julie Berndsen, University College Dublin, Ireland<br> * Shannon Bischoff, Universidad de Puerto Rico, Puerto Rico<br> * Lori Levin, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA<br> * Climent Nadeu, Universitat Politčcnica de Catalunya, Spain<br>
* Juan Antonio Pérez-Ortiz, Universitat d'Alacant, Spain<br> * Bojan Petek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia<br> * Oliver Streiter, National University of Kaohsiung, Taiwan<br><br><br><br>------------------------------------<br>
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