[Corpora-List] AfLaT 2010: Final Call for Papers

[Guy De Pauw]

SECOND WORKSHOP ON AFRICAN LANGUAGE TECHNOLOGY
AfLaT 2010
18 MAY 2009, VALLETTA, MALTA

Workshop at the seventh international conference on Language Resources 
and Evaluation (LREC) 2010

ABOUT THE WORKSHOP
The workshop will consist of an invited talk, followed by refereed 
research papers in African Language Technology. The focus will be on 
sub-Saharan African languages, excluding Arabic and languages with 
European origins, such as Afrikaans and African variants of English and 
French. We invite submissions on any topic related to language and 
speech technology and African languages including, but not limited to, 
the following:

+ Corpora and corpus annotation
+ Machine readable lexicons
+ Morphological analyzers and spelling checkers
+ Part of speech taggers and parsers
+ Speech recognition and synthesis
+ Applications such as machine translation, information extraction, 
information retrieval, computer-assisted language learning and question 
answering
+  The role of language technologies in economic development, education, 
healthcare, and emergency and public services
+  Documentation of endangered languages and the use of language 
technologies to enhance language vitality
+ The combination of language and speech technology with mobile phone 
technology.

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
Authors are invited to submit original work in the topic area of this 
workshop. The reviewing will be blind and the paper should therefore not 
include the authors' names and affiliations. Submission will be 
electronic. Papers must be submitted no later than 15 February, 2010 
using the submission webpage: https://www.softconf.com/lrec2010/AfLaT2010.

When submitting a paper from the START page, authors will be asked to 
provide essential information about resources (in a broad sense, i.e. 
also technologies, standards, evaluation kits, etc.) that have been used 
for the work described in the paper or are a new result of your 
research. For further information on this new initiative, please refer 
to http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2010/?LREC2010-Map-of-Language-Resources.

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010
Notification of acceptance: 12 March, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: 22 March, 2010
Workshop: 18 May 2010

More information at http://aflat.org

Guy De Pauw

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