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LULCL II - programme and registration information
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Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics (LULCL) II 
"Combining efforts to foster computational support of minority languages"

13th - 14th of November 2008
European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

http://www.eurac.edu/lulcl2
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REGISTRATION:
Participation at the colloquium LULCL II is free of charge. Registration is obligatory. Please send an email to communication.multilingualism at eurac.edu indicating your full name and affiliation as well as participation dates no later than 31st October 2008.

PROGRAMME:

Thursday 13th November 2008       
	
	08:00-09:00	  Registration
 
Opening
 	09:00-09:30	  Werner Stuflesser, President of EURAC
                	  Alexander Piccolruaz, Amt für ladinische Kultur und Schule, Autonomous Province of Bozen/Bolzano
 
Minority languages 
 	09:30-10:30   Keynote speech 
                    Computing with or for minority languages? Aims, methods and responsibilities in computational   linguistics.
                    Dafydd Gibbon (Bielefeld University, Germany)
 
 	10:30-11:00	  Coffee break

 	11:00-11:40	  Research projects in the area of Ladin studies at the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano
                    Paul Videsott (Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy)
 
 	11:40-12:20	  Das Ladinische auf dem Weg eines zeitgemäßen Ausbaus
                    Giovanni Mischì (Ladin Institute "Micurà de Rü", Italy) 
 
 	12:20-13:45   Lunch break

 
Minority languages and language varieties
 	13:45-14:25   The development and acceptance of electronic resources for the Welsh language
                    Delyth Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, UK)
 
 	14:25-15:05	  Corpus annotation and lexical analysis of African varieties of Portuguese
                    Amália Mendes (Centro de Linguística da Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal)
		
	15:05-16:30	  Poster session
 
Minority languages
 	16:30-17:10	  African Language Technology: the Data-Driven Perspective
                    Guy De Pauw (University of Antwerp, Belgium), Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (Ghent University, Belgium)
 
 	17:10-17:50	  Multimodal corpora and lesser-resourced/less standardized languages
                    Jens Allwood (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
 

Friday 14th November 2008
 
Learner language
 	08:30-09:30	  Keynote speech
                    Using spoken and written learner corpora for research
                    Karin Aijmer (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
 
 	09:30-10:10	  VALICO - Varietà Apprendimento Lingua Italiana Corpus Online 
                    Elisa Corino (University of Torino, Italy)
 
 	10:10-10:45	  Coffee break
 
Learner language and language varieties
 	10:45-11:25	  Learner language as an under-resourced language
                    Anke Lüdeling (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany)
 
 	11:25-12:15	  to be announced
 
 	12:15-14:00	  Lunch break
 
Spoken language
 	14:00-14:40	  Creating and working with spoken language corpora in EXMARaLDA
                    Thomas Schmidt (University of Hamburg, Germany)
 
 	14:40-15:20	  Transcription bottleneck of speech corpus exploitation
                    Caren Brinckmann (Institut für Deutsche Sprache (IDS), Mannheim, Germany)
 
 	15:20-15:45	  Coffee break
 
Sign language
 	15:45-16:25	  Sign Language Corpora
                    Onno Crasborn (Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands)
 
 	16:25-17:05	  Deaf accessibility to educational content: development of a multilevel platform
                    Eleni Efthimiou (ATHENA RC/ILSP -Sign Language Technologies Lab, Greece)

 	17:05-17:45	  Closing session

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Karin Aijmer, Göteborg University, Sweden  
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany

SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE:
Andrea Abel, Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Stefanie Anstein, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Christopher Culy, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Dafydd Gibbon, Bielefeld University, Germany 
Christer Laurén, Vaasa University, Finland 
Marcello Soffritti, University of Bologna / European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Chiara Vettori, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano, Italy 
Paul Videsott, Free University of Bozen/Bolzano, Italy

CONTACT:
Institute for Specialised Communication and Multilingualism, 
European Academy Bozen/Bolzano Viale Druso 1, 
39100 Bozen/Bolzano, Italy
Organiser: Verena Lyding
Email: communication.multilingualism at eurac.edu
Tel: 0471-055127
Fax: 0471-055199

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LULCL II is co-financed by the "Autonome Region Trentino-Südtirol / Regione Autonoma Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Abteilung III Sprachminderheiten und Europäische Integration / Ripartizione III - Minoranze linguistiche ed integrazione europea, Amt für Sprachminderheiten / Ufficio per le minoranze linguistiche".
http://www.regione.taa.it/Minoranze/default_d.aspx
http://www.regione.taa.it/moduli/431_logo%20regione.pdf


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