19.3139, Confs: Computational Linguistics/Italy

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Date: 16-Oct-2008
From: Verena Lyding < verena.lyding at eurac.edu >
Subject: Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II

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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 11:03:40
From: Verena Lyding [verena.lyding at eurac.edu]
Subject: Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II 

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Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II 
Short Title: LULCL II 

Date: 13-Nov-2008 - 14-Nov-2008 
Location: Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Contact: Verena Lyding 
Contact Email: communication.multilingualism at eurac.edu 
Meeting URL:
http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/LULCL_II.htm 

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics 

Meeting Description: 

LULCL II 

Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II 
'Combining Efforts to Foster Computational Support of Minority Languages'

13th - 14th of November 2008
European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

http://www.eurac.edu/lulcl2 

LULCL II - Programme and Registration Information

Registration:

Participation at the colloquium LULCL II is free of charge. Registration is
obligatory. Please send an email to: communication.multilingualism at eurac.edu
indicating your full name and affiliation as well as participation dates no
later than 31st October 2008.

Programme:

Thursday 13th November 2008       

08:00-09:00	  
Registration

Opening
09:00-09:30	  
Werner Stuflesser, President of EURAC

Alexander Piccolruaz, Amt für ladinische Kultur und Schule, Autonomous Province
of Bozen/Bolzano

Minority Languages 

09:30-10:30       
Keynote Speech 
Computing ith or for Minority Languages? Aims, Methods and Responsibilities in
Computational Linguistics.
Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany)

10:30-11:00	  
Coffee Break

11:00-11:40	  
Research Projects in the Area of Ladin Studies at the Free University of
Bozen/Bolzano
Paul Videsott (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy)

11:40-12:20	  
Das Ladinische auf dem Weg eines zeitgemäßen Ausbaus
Giovanni Mischì (Ladin Institute ''Micurà de Rü'', Italy) 

12:20-13:45       
Lunch Break

Minority Languages and Language Varieties

13:45-14:25       
The Development and Acceptance of Electronic Resources for the Welsh Language
Delyth Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, UK)

14:25-15:05	  
Corpus Annotation and Lexical Analysis of African Varieties of Portuguese
 Amália Mendes (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)

15:05-16:30	  
Poster Session

Minority Languages

16:30-17:10	  
African Language Technology: the Data-Driven Perspective
Guy De Pauw (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent
University, Belgium)

17:10-17:50	  
Multimodal Corpora and Lesser-resourced/Less Standardized Languages
Jens Allwood (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

Friday 14th November 2008

Learner Language
08:30-09:30	  
Keynote Speech
Using Spoken and Written Learner Corpora for Research
Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)

09:30-10:10	  
VALICO - Varietà Apprendimento Lingua Italiana Corpus Online 
Elisa Corino (University of Torino, Italy)

10:10-10:45	  
Coffee Break

Learner Language and Language Varieties

10:45-11:25	  
Learner Language as an Under-resourced Language
Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)

11:25-12:15	  
To be Announced

12:15-14:00	 
Lunch Break

Spoken Language

14:00-14:40	  
Creating and Working with Spoken Language Corpora in EXMARaLDA
Thomas Schmidt (University of Hamburg, Germany)

14:40-15:20	  
Transcription Bottleneck of Speech Corpus Exploitation
Caren Brinckmann (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim, Germany)

15:20-15:45	  
Coffee Break

Sign Language

15:45-16:25	  
Sign Language Corpora
Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)

!6:25-17:05	  
Deaf Accessibility to Educational Content: Development of a Multilevel Platform
Eleni Efthimiou (ATHENA RC/ILSP -Sign Language Technologies Lab, Greece)

17:05-17:45	 
Closing Session

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Keynote Speakers:
Karin Aijmer, Göteborg University, Sweden 
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany

Scientific Committee:
Andrea Abel, Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Stefanie Anstein, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Christopher Culy, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany 
Christer Laurén, Vaasa University, Finland 
Marcello Soffritti, University of Bologna / European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Chiara Vettori, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Paul Videsott, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

Contact:
Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism, European Academy
Bozen/Bolzano Viale Druso 1, 39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Organiser: Verena Lyding
Email: communication.multilingualism at eurac.edu
Tel: 0471-055127
Fax: 0471-055199

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LULCL II is co-financed by the ''Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol / Regione
Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Abteilung III Sprachminderheiten und
Europäische Integration / Ripartizione III - Minoranze linguistiche ed
integrazione europea, Amt für Sprachminderheiten / Ufficio per le minoranze
linguistiche''.
http://www.regione.taa.it/Minoranze/default_d.aspx
http://www.regione.taa.it/moduli/431_logo%20regione.pdf

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