Language Resources for European Minority Languages" (fwd)
Andrew Carnie
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Mon Apr 27 15:03:45 UTC 1998
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Date: Mon, 27 Apr 1998 15:13:44 +0100
From: Briony Williams <briony at cstr.ed.ac.uk>
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Subject: Workshop programme: "Language Resources for European Minority
Languages"
Workshop on
"Language Resources for European Minority Languages"
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Wednesday May 27 1998 (morning), Granada, Spain
In association with the First International Conference on
Language Resources and Evaluation, May 28-30 1998, Granada, Spain
PROGRAMME:
8:00 Registration
8:30 Welcome and Introduction
8:40 "Overview of minority languages in Europe". Marc Alemany (Catalan
Sociolinguistic Institute).
9:00 "VOCATEL and VOGATEL: Two Telephone Speech Databases of Spanish Minority
Languages (Catalan and Galician)". Luis Villarrubia, Paloma Leon, Luis
Hernandez (Speech Technology Group, Telefonica I&D, Madrid, Spain);
Climent Nadeu, Ignasi Esquerra, Javier Hernando (Dept. TSC, Universitat
Polite'cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain); Carmen Garcia-Mateo, Laura
Docio (ETSIT de Telecomunicacio'n, Universidad de Vigo, Vigo, Spain).
9:20 "Written Linguistic Resources in Catalan: the DCC Project". Joan Soler
Bou (Institut d'Estudis Catalans, Barcelona, Spain).
9:40 "The MELIN project". Donncha O' Cro'ini'n (Institiu'id Teangeolai'ochta
E'ireann/Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland).
10:00 COFFEE
10:30 "A framework for the automatic processing of Basque". I. Aldezabal,
O. Ansa, J.M. Arriola, A. Di'az de Ilarraza, N. Ezeiza, A. Maritxalar,
M. Oronoz, K. Sarasola (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain); I. Aduriz,
M. Urkia (UZEI, Donostia, Spain).
10:50 "Towards the creation of new Galician language resources: From a printed
dictionary to the Galician WordNet". Fernando Magan (Ramo'n Pin~eiro
Research Center for Humanities, Santiago de Compostela, Spain).
11:10 Poster Session 1 (odd-numbered authors at posters)
11:50 Poster Session 2 (even-numbered authors at posters)
12:30 Plenary
13:30 End
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Poster papers
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1 "A tagger environment for Galician". M. Vilares, J. Gran~a (Universidad de
Corunna, Spain); T. Araujo, D. Cabrero, I. Diz (Ramo'n Pin~eiro Research
Center for Humanities, Santiago de Compostela, Spain).
2 "A bilingual Spanish-Catalan database of units for concatenative synthesis".
I. Esquerra, A. Bonafonte, F. Vallverdu', A. Febrer (Universitat
Polite'cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain).
3 "Methods and tools for building the Catalan WordNet". L. beni'tez, S.
Cervell, G. Escudero, M. Lo'pez, G. Rigau, M. Taule' (Universitat
Polite'cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain; Universitat de Barcelona).
4 "Lemmatisation of the corpus of Cornish". J. Mills (University of Luton,
England, UK).
5 "SpeechDat Cymru: A large-scale telephony Welsh database". R.J. Jones,
J.S. Mason (Univ. of Wales, Swansea, Wales, UK); L. Helliker, M. Pawlewski
(BT Labs, Ipswich, England, UK).
6 "KGB Project: Tools and resources for Breton language learning". J. Siroux,
H. Gourmelon, G. Mercier, J-P. Messager (ENSSAT, Lannion, France).
7 "A speech database in Basque language". K. Lo'pez de Ipin~a, I. Torres,
L. On~ederra (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Spain).
8 "An overview of the existing language resources for 'Gallego'".
C. Garci'a-Mateo (Universidade de Vigo, Spain); M. Gonza'lez-Gonza'lez
(Universidade de Santiago, Spain).
9 "Language standardisation and linguistic resources: The case of Central
Ladin (Dolomites)". F. Ciochetti (Istitut Ladin, Vigo di Fassa, Italy);
F. Pianesi (IRST, Trento, Italy).
10 "The LE-PAROLE project and the National Corpus of Irish". D. O' Cro'ini'n,
E. Ui' Dhonnchadha (Institiu'id Teangeolai'ochta E'ireann/Linguistics
Institute of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland).
11 "Design of a phonetic corpus for speech recognition in Catalan".
I. Esquerra, C. Nadeu (Universitat Polite'cnica de Catalunya, Barcelona,
Spain); L. Villarrubia, P. Leo'n (Telefo'nica Investigacio'n y Desarrollo,
Madrid, Spain).
12 "Levels of annotation for a Welsh speech database for phonetic research".
B. Williams (University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK).
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WORKSHOP SCOPE AND AIMS:
The minority or "lesser used" languages of Europe (e.g. Basque, Welsh,
Breton) are under increasing pressure from the major languages. Some of them
(e.g. Gaelic) are becoming endangered, but others (e.g. Catalan) are in a
stronger position, with a certain amount of official recognition and funding.
However, the situation with regard to language resources is fragmented and
disorganised. Some minority languages have been adequately researched
linguistically, but most have not, and the vast majority do not yet possess
basic speech and language resources (such as text and speech corpora) which
are sufficient to permit commercial development of products.
If this situation were to continue, the minority languages of Europe would
fall a long way behind the major languages, as regards the availability of
commercial speech and language products. This in turn will accelerate the
decline of those languages that are already struggling to survive, as speakers
are forced to use the majority language for interaction with these products.
To break this vicious circle, it is important to encourage the development of
basic language resources.
The workshop is a very small first step towards encouraging the development of
such resources. The aim is to share information, so that isolated researchers
will not need to start from nothing. An important aspect will be the forming
of personal contacts, which at present do not exist. The aim is to make it
easier for isolated researchers with little funding and no existing corpora to
begin developing a usuable speech or text database. There will be a balance
between presentations of existing language resources, and more general
presentations designed to give background information.
ORGANISERS:
Briony Williams University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK
Climent Nadeu Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Catalunya, Spain
Alex Monaghan Dublin City University, Ireland
CONTACT (on *academic* matters only - registration information is below):
Briony Williams
CSTR
80 South Bridge
Edinburgh EH1 1HN
Scotland, UK
EMAIL: briony at cstr.ed.ac.uk
Tel: +44 1 31 650 2790
Fax: +44 1 31 650 6351
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REGISTRATION INFORMATION FOR LREC AND PRE AND POST CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
Conference
The registration fees will be 25.000 pesetas (about 150 ECU) per
participant, with reduced fees of 20.000 pesetas (about 120 ECU)
for early registration by March 9, 1998, and 12.000 pesetas
(about 70 ECU) for students. The fees cover the following
services: a copy of the proceedings, a social dinner, coffee
breaks and refreshments. For accompanying persons, the social
dinner will be 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU).
Pre Conference Workshops
Pre Conference Workshops are 5,000 pesetas each for those
attending LREC and 10,000 pesetas each for those not attending
LREC, and include a copy of the proceedings of the workshop and a
coffee break.
Post Conference Workshop
The 2-day Post Conference Workshop is 10,000 pesetas for those
attending LREC and 20,000 pesetas for those not attending LREC,
and includes a copy of the proceedings of the workshop and coffee
breaks. Registration willbe made only for those persons who have
been invited to participate by the organizers.
Advance registration payment can be made using the Registration
Forms below.
Registration can be made on-site and must be paid in cash, using
pesetas.
REGISTRATION FORMS
FIRST INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
GRANADA, SPAIN, 28-30 MAY 1998
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reli98 at goliat.ugr.es
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Social Dinner for accompanying persons 6.000 pesetas (about 35 ECU)
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Pre Conference Workshops, May 26 - 27, 1998
5,000 pesetas each for those attending LREC
10,000 pesetas each for those not attending LREC
Please indicate the workshops you plan to attend (X)
_____ "Linguistic Coreference"
May 26, morning session
_____ "Adapting Lexical and Corpus Resources to Sublanguages and Applications"
May 26, morning session
_____ "The Evaluation of Parsing Systems"
May 26, afternoon session
_____ "Minimizing the Effort for Language Resource Acquisition"
May 26, afternoon session
_____ "Towards an open European Evaluation Infrastructure for NL and Speech"
May 27, morning session
_____ "Language Resources for European Minority Languages"
May 27, morning session
_____ "Speech Database Development for Central and Eastern EuropeanLanguages"
May 27, afternoon session
_____ "Distributing and Accessing Linguistic Resources"
May 27, afternoon session
Total Number: __________
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Post Conference Workshop, May 31 - June 1*
_______"Translingual Information Management: Current Levels and Future
Abilities"
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confirmed with the organizers
10,000 (if attending LREC)
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You may pay by credit card (VISA, MasterCard or Eurocard only; we cannot
accept American Express, Diners Club, etc.). You may also pay by Banker's
Cheque, bank transfer or by Eurocheque. All payments must be in Spanish
pesetas.
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VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
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CONFERENCE ADDRESSES
The Conference Chair is Antonio Zampolli (Istituto di Linguistica
Computazionale del CNR and President of ELRA).
Antonio Zampolli - LREC
Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del CNR
via della Faggiola, 32
56126 Pisa, ITALY
+39 50 560 481 tel.
+39 50 555 013 fax
pisa at ilc.pi.cnr.it
The Secretariat of the Conference, who will provide general information on
the Conference, is:
LREC Secretariat
Facultad de Traduccion e Interpretacion
Dpto. de Traduccion e Interpretacion
C/ Puentezuelas, 55
18002 Granada, SPAIN
+34 58 24 41 00 tel.
+34 58 24 41 04 fax
reli98 at goliat.ugr.es
CONFERENCE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Harald Hoege, Siemens, Munich, Germany
Bente Maegaard, CST, Copenhagen, Denmark
Joseph Mariani, LIMSI-CNRS, Orsay, France
Angel Martin Municio, President of the Real Academia de Ciencias, Madrid, Spain
Antonio Zampolli, Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale, Pisa, Italy
EXHIBITION
An exhibition will be organised by ELRA. This exhibition is open
to companies and projects wishing to promote, present and
demonstrate their language resources products and prototypes to
the wide range of experts and representatives from all over the
world participating in the conference. For more information on
this, please contact the ELDA office on elra-elda at calva.net.
ELRA
For more information about ELRA (the European Language Resources
Association), please contact:
Khalid Choukri, ELRA CEO
55-57, rue Brillat Savarin
F- 75013 Paris, France
Tel. +33 1 43 13 33 33
Fax. +33 1 43 13 33 39
E-mail: elra at calva.net
Web: http://www.icp.grenet.fr/ELRA/home.html
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