[Corpora-List] Summary and thanks

[Piao, Songlin]

Hi,
 
Since we announced our plan for a project of expanding the EMILLE multilingual parallel corpora and an alignment competition last Monday (7th June), so far we have received emails showing interests and suport from people including:
 
Dekai Wu 
HKUST, Homg Kong 

Chris Callison-Burch 
University of Edinburgh, UK 

Gabriel Pereira Lopes 
Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal 

Chris Brew 
The Ohio State University, US 

Deryle Lonsdale 
Brigham Young University, US 

Xiaoyi Ma 
LDC, University of Pennsylvania, US 

Philip Resnik 
University of Maryland, US 

Antonio Rios 
Instituto Cultural Peruano Norteamericano, Peru 

Min Zhang, Xingapore

Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore

 
Niladri Chatterjee
Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
 
Adam Przepiorkowski
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
 
We would like to thank them for their support to our project proposal. If anyone is interested in taking part in the competition, please let us know (refer to our original anouncement attached below).
 
With best regards
 
Dr. Scott Piao 
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Dept. of Linguistics and MEL 
Lancaster University 
Lancaster LA1 4YT 
United Kingdom 
  
Email: s.piao at lancaster.ac.uk 
Tel:  +44 (0)1524 593025 
Fax: +44 (0)1524 843085 

	 
	 
	 
	 
	-----Original Message----- 
	From: Piao, Songlin 
	Sent: Mon 07/06/2004 11:11 
	To: corpora at hd.uib.no 
	Cc: 
	Subject: corpus alignment competition
	
	Hi, 

	We are planning a project in Lancaster, UK, aiming to expand and align the EMILLE multilingual parallel corpora. If funded the project will result in a parallel corpus of eleven languages (Arabic, Bangla, Chinese, English, Gujarati, Hindi, Panjabi, Polish, Somali, Urdu and Vietnamese). When we have expanded the corpus, we want to hold an alignment competition on this data. Because the languages involved include a wide range of typologically different/distant languages, the corpus should present a tough challenge to current alignment algorithms, and hence provide an excellent opportunity to test the ability of current alignment algorithms/tools on a wide range of languages.

	At this stage we are asking for expressions of interest in taking part in the competition. We need these expressions of interest at this stage because we intend to include a small amount of money in the project budget for each competing team so that they can hire native speakers etc. to help tune their algorithms in advance of the competition proper. If you are interested in taking part in this alignment competition, please let us know by contacting Dr. Scott Piao (s.piao at lancaster.ac.uk) in the first instance.

	Thank you, 

	Paul Baker, Tony McEnery & Scott Piao 
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	Dept. of Linguistics and MEL 
	Lancaster University 
	Lancaster LA1 4YT 
	United Kingdom