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This is to announce that submission of contributions to the workshop
"Language Technologies in support of Less-Resourced Languages" is
now open: <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2015/submissions.htm">http://www.ilc.cnr.it/lrl2015/submissions.htm</a><br>
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The workshop will take place in Poznan, Poland, on the 28th of
November. It will be a great opportunity for discussing about the
needs and challenges of Language Technology development for
less-resourced languages.<br>
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We are happy to share the title and summary of the plenary talk,
which will be given by Mikel L. Forcada (Universitat d'Alacant and
Apertium, Spain):<br>
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*Machine translation and language resources for under-resourced
European languages: challenges and experiences*<br>
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Multilingualism is at the core of Europe's identity. However, the
official multilingualism of European Union institutions is usually
restricted to a set of 24 official languages (<i>bul</i><i>, ces,
dan, deu, ell, eng, spa, est, fin, fra, gle, hrv, hun, ita, lit,
lav, mlt, nld, pol, por, ron, slk, slv, swe</i>), with some
symbolic support for five more semi-official languages (<i>cat</i>,
<i>cym</i>, <i>eus</i>, <i>gla</i>, <i>glg</i>). As a result,
European funding for machine translation and language resources
usually covers these languages, but not many other languages in
which Europeans live a great part of their everyday lifes.<br>
In this talk, I will discuss some of the issues and challenges
involved in creating machine translation (MT) and MT-related
language resources for less-resourced languages of Europe, will show
the advantages of a free/open-source, collaborative approach, and
will argue in favour of knowledge-based approaches, illustrating
them with three cases: two under-resourced languages (Breton and
Occitan) and a better resourced language (Catalan).<br>
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With my best regards,<br>
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Claudia Soria<br>
Workshop Co-Chair<br>
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Claudia Soria
Researcher
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale "A. Zampolli"
Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
Via Moruzzi 1
56124 Pisa
Italy
Tel. +39 050 3153166
Skype clausor</pre>
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