TLSX -- call for participation

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==== CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:

    TLSX Texas Linguistics Society 10
    Computational Linguistics for Less-Studied Languages

    Austin, Texas 3-5 November 2006

    http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls

==== DEADLINE FOR EARLY REGISTRAION:

    20 October
    Registration info:
    http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/~tls/2006tls/registration.php

==== SCOPE:
    The past decade has seen great developments at the intersection of
    computational linguistics and language documentation, particularly
    in the focus areas of speech and video recording and
    transcription, best practices for data collection and archiving,
    and ontology development. TLSX aims to highlight the application
    of techniques from computational linguistics to the management and
    analysis of language data as well as to less-studied languages or
    less-studied varieties of well-studied languages.

    The goal of TLSX is to further the state of computational
    linguistics for less-studied languages by bringing together
    researchers working at this frontier and providing a forum for the
    presentation of original research. We anticipate work both from
    documentary and descriptive linguists interested in improving
    technologies for linguistic analysis and from computational
    linguists interested in theoretical issues such as the application
    of data-driven natural language processing (NLP) techniques to
    languages for which there exists relatively little
    digitally-available data.

==== INVITED SPEAKERS:
    * Jason Baldridge, University of Texas at Austin
    * Emily Bender, University of Washington
    * Steven Bird, University of Melbourne
    * Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin
    * Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania
    * Raymond Mooney, University of Texas at Austin

==== PROGRAM:

== Friday, November 3, 2006
8:30 - 9:15 Registration / Coffee and refreshments
9:15 - 9:30 Opening remarks

9:30 - 10:45     
    Keynote address
    Linguistic Data Management with the Natural Language Toolkit
    Steven Bird, University of Melbourne, University of Pennsylvania

10:50 - 11:20     
    Annotating and archiving natural language paradigms online
    Dorothee Beerman & Atle Prange

11:20 - 11:50     
    The SIL FieldWorks Language Explorer Approach to Morphological Parsing
    H. Andrew Black & Gary F. Simons

1:00 - 1:30     
    A Method for Enhancing Search Using Transliteration of Mandarin Chinese
    Vijay John

1:30 - 2:00     
    Inflectional Vocalization of Arabic Text: A MaxEnt Tagging Approach
    Frederick M. Hoyt

2:10 - 3:35     
    Keynote address
    Cutting Corpus Costs: Machine Learning and Annotation
    Jason Baldridge , University of Texas at Austin

3:50 - 5:30     
    Panel Discussion

    Understanding needs of documentary and descriptive linguistics,
    gaps in the current tool set, problems of current technologies,
    issues involved in doing work on less-studied languages
    Tony Woodbury, moderator

== Saturday, November 4, 2006
9:00 - 10:15     
    Keynote address
    TBA
    Emily Bender, University of Washington

10:20 - 10:50     
    Two Approaches to Mayan Grammar Development in CCG
    Elias Ponvert

10:50 - 11:20     
    A Combinatory Categorial Grammar of a Fragment of American Sign Language
    Tony Wright

11:20 - 11:50     
    A Morphological Analyzer for Verbal Aspect in American Sign Language
    Aaron Shield & Jason Baldridge

1:00 - 2:15     
    Keynote address
    Detecting outliers: useful for word sense assignment - and for
    aiding manual annotation?
    Katrin Erk, University of Texas at Austin

2:20 - 2:50     
    Affix Discovery based on Entropy and Economy Measurements
    Alfonso Medina-Urrea

2:50 - 3:20     
    Enriching Language Data through Projected Structures
    William Lewis, Fei Xia, & Dan Jinguji

3:20 - 3:50     
    Finite State Methods for Bantu Verb Morphology
    Robert Elwell

4:05 - 5:20     
    Keynote address
    TBA
    Ray Mooney, University of Texas at Austin

== Sunday, November 5, 2006

9:00 - 10:15     
    Keynote address
    TBA
    Mark Liberman, University of Pennsylvania

10:30 - 12:30    
    Panel Discussion
    How can computational linguistics address the needs of documentary
    and descriptive linguistics, and how will doing so further the
    state of research in the field of computational linguistics? What
    are fruitful directions for future research? Where do we go from
    here?


==== ORGANIZING COMMITTEE:
    * Stephen Hilderbrand
    * Heeyoung Lyu
    * Alexis Palmer
    * Elias Ponvert

    The organizing committee members are all members of the Department
    of Linguistics at The University of Texas at Austin.

    Please contact tls at uts.cc.utexas.edu with any questions or concerns.