35.941, Confs: Celtic Languages in the Digital Age
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Subject: 35.941, Confs: Celtic Languages in the Digital Age
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Date: 13-Mar-2024
From: Mo El-Haj [m.el-haj at lancaster.ac.uk]
Subject: Celtic Languages in the Digital Age
Celtic Languages in the Digital Age
Short Title: CLIDA 2024
Date: 09-Apr-2024 - 09-Apr-2024
Location: Online, United Kingdom
Contact: Mo El-Haj
Contact Email: m.el-haj at lancaster.ac.uk
Meeting URL: https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/celtic/
Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
General Linguistics
Subject Language(s): Breton (bre)
Cornish (cor)
Gaelic, Scottish (gla)
Irish (gle)
Welsh (cym)
Language Family(ies): Celtic
Meeting Description:
The “Celtic Languages in the Digital Age” workshop is designed to meet
the critical need for the development of linguistic resources that
support Celtic languages, which are steeped in rich oral traditions
and have historical roots.
Join us on 9 April 2024 for a pioneering workshop dedicated to
examining the requirements for future Celtic language resource
development, that is, resources that have the flexibility to support
Welsh, Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Cornish, Breton and Manx.
The event will be broadcasted online for free, registration is
required: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/4fe3b098-c5f5-4edf-
b917-80fd4d0f1cb9 at 9c9bcd11-977a-4e9c-a9a0-bc734090164a
The UCREL NLP Group at Lancaster University boasts a distinguished
history of engagement with Celtic languages, recently through our
collaborative endeavours focusing on the Welsh language. In
partnership with Cardiff University, with funding from ESRC and AHRC,
we have collaborated on the development of CorCenCC (the National
Corpus of Contemporary Welsh: www.corcenc.org) and FreeTxt
(www.freetxt.app), in addition to the Welsh Summarisation, Thesaurus,
and Welsh Digital Grid (www.digigrid.cymru) projects, which were
funded by the Welsh Government. These collaborations have been
instrumental in the development of pivotal tools such as the Welsh
Semantic Tagger and the FreeTxt analysis tool, marking significant
advancements in the linguistic technology landscape for Celtic
languages, with a particular focus on Welsh.
Building on its established foundation in Welsh language technologies,
the UCREL NLP Group is now eager to support widening the scope of
computational methods to encompass other Celtic languages, including
Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Breton, and Cornish. Our objective is to
contribute to the development of resources and NLP technologies that
support and enhance the digital presence of these linguistically rich
but under-resourced languages.
Our workshop will feature an array of speakers and panellists, each
bringing a unique perspective on the challenges and opportunities
inherent in developing linguistic resources and NLP applications for
Celtic languages. Discussions will focus on addressing the scarcity of
resources available to Celtic languages, the development of language
models tailored to these languages, and the exploration of existing
datasets and ongoing efforts in the field. This event promises to be
an invaluable platform for fostering collaboration, sharing
cutting-edge research, and discussing strategies to enhance digital
support for these languages.
Keynote Speakers:
- Professor Dawn Knight, Cardiff University
- Professor Kevin Scannell, Cadhan Aonair
- Dr Daniel Cunliffe, University of South Wales
- Mr Gruffudd Prys, Bangor University
- Dr Inge Birnie, University of Strathclyde
- Dr Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen’s University Belfast
- Dr David Howcroft, Edinburgh Napier University
- Dr Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Dublin City University
- Dr Cedric Lothritz, University of Luxembourg
Organisers:
Dr Mo El-Haj, Senior Lecturer in NLP, Lancaster University
Dr Saad Ezzini, Lecturer in Computer Science, Lancaster University
Local speakers:
Professor Paul Rayson, Lancaster University
Dr Nouran Khallaf, Lancaster University
Dr Ignatius Ezeani, Lancaster University
Programme can be found online:
https://wp.lancs.ac.uk/celtic/programme/
Time Event
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9:00 am - 9:30 Arrival and Coffee
Management School, Lancaster University
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9:30 am - 9:40 Dr Mo El-Haj and Dr Saad Ezzini
Welcome and Opening Remarks
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9:40 am - 10:05 Dr Merryn Davies-Deacon, Queen’s University Belfast
Variation and communities among speakers of Breton
and Cornish
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10:05 am - 10:30 Dr Daniel Cunliffe, University of South Wales
Exploring the presence of Cymraeg on TikTok
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10:30 am - 10:55 Professor Dawn Knight, Cardiff University
Enhancing language technology resources in
minoritised language contexts: past, present and future research
projects and opportunities
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10:55 am - 11:20 Mr Gruffudd Prys, Bangor University
Recent Language Technology developments for Welsh at
Bangor University
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11:20 am - 11:35 Coffee Break
(15 minutes)
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11:35 am - 12:00 Dr Mícheál J. Ó Meachair, Dublin City University
NLP and corpus-linguistic tasks: Current work and
challenges for the Irish language
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12:00 pm - 12:25 Dr David Howcroft, Edinburgh Napier University
Scottish Gaelic in Natural Language Processing
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12:25 pm - 12:50 Dr Inge Birnie, University of Strathclyde (Glasgow)
Gaelic language use and identity in the digital era
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12:50 pm - 2:00 Lunch Break
(1h 10m)
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2:00 pm - 2:20 Dr Nouran Khallaf and Dr Ignatius Ezeani
Advancing Welsh Natural Language Processing:
Bridging Gaps in Resources and Tools for Low-Resource Languages
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2:20 pm - 2:45 Dr Cedric Lothritz, University of Luxembourg
Exploring Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning
Techniques to Create Language Models for Luxembourgish
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2:45 pm - 3:10 Professor Kevin Scannell
Explainable AI for Irish grammatical error
correction
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3:10 pm - 3:25 Professor Paul Rayson
Affordances of the CLARIN research infrastructure
for corpus research on Celtic languages
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3:25 pm - 3:45 Coffee Break
(20 minutes)
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3:45 pm - 5:15 Panel Discussion
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