Corpora: ILASH Workshop:Minority Languages & Computation

[Ekaterini Pastra]

[ Apologies for multiple postings ]

Dear all,

The Institute for Language, Speech and Hearing (ILASH),
University of Sheffield, would like to invite you to its
half-day workshop on:

"MINORITY LANGUAGES AND COMPUTATION"

DATE: Thursday, 09 May 2002
TIME: 10:00 a.m
VENUE: ILASH Suite, West Court, 2 Mappin Street, Sheffield, U.K.

Program:

10:00 a.m  Professor Yorick Wilks
                 University of Sheffield - ILASH Director
                 Welcome Speech

10:15 a.m  Dr. Nicholas Ostler
                 Foundation for Endagered Languages
                 "Storing and Accessing Minority Languages:
                 Approaches to the Problem Worldwide"

11:00 a.m  Discussion

11:15 a.m  Professor Tony McEnery
                 University of Lancaster
                 "The EMILLE Project" (exact title:TBA)

12:00 p.m  Discussion

12:15 p.m  Professor Harold Somers
                 UMIST
                 "Computer Support for Patients with Limited English:
                 An Application of Language Engineering for Minority
                 Languages"

13:00 p.m  Discussion
13:15 p.m  Closing

A poster and more detailed information on the event can be found in the
ILASH webpages:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/Meetings/index.html

General Information on ILASH is available at:
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/research/ilash/

Maps of the University Precinct and the Sheffield City Centre can be
found at: http://www.shef.ac.uk/travel/

Please don't hesitate to contact me for any queries you might have,

All Best,
Katerina Pastra

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Katerina Pastra
Research Assistant - ILASH Research Co-ordinator
Natural Language Processing Group
Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield
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Regent Court - Room G35
211 Portobello Street, Sheffield, U.K.
Tel. +44 114 2221945
Fax  +44 114 2221810
http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~katerina
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