MINELRES: CfA: LULCL, Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics, European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy

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Original sender: Sergiu Constantin <Sergiu.Constantin@eurac.edu>


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LULCL, Lesser Used Languages & Computer Linguistics
EURAC research, European Academy Bolzano/Bozen, Italy
27th October-28th October 2005
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http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/Conference2005.htm

Provisional programme:

Thursday,  27th October 2005 

08:30-09:30 Registration 
09:30-10:00 Opening 
10:00-10:45 Spracherneuerung im Ratoromanischen: Linguistische, soziale
und politische Aspekte
Clau Soler (University of Geneva) 
10:45-11:15 Coffee break 
11:15-11:45 Designing a Sardinian Corpus: problems and perspectives
Nicoletta Puddu (Universita di Pavia) 
11:45-12:15 Il progetto "Zimbarbort" per il recupero del patrimonio
linguistico cimbro
Luca Panieri (Istituto Cimbro di Luserna) 
12:15-12:45 The relevance of lesser used languages for theoretical
linguistics: the case of Cimbrian and the support of the TITUS corpus
Alessandra Tomaselli (Universita di Verona), Ermenegildo Bidese
(Universita di Verona/ Studio Teologico Accademico Bressanone), Cecilia
Poletto (Padova-CNR) 
12:45-14:30 Lunch break 
14:30-15:00 Il progetto VERBA, Una rete di strumenti web-based di
comunita linguistiche per permettere alle lingue meno diffuse di
accedere a strumenti d'eccellenza nel campo del trattamento automatico
della lingua
Carlo Zoli (Dipartimento di Ingegneria Linguistica di Open Lab), Diego
Corraine (Ufitziu pro Sa Limba Sarda) 
15:00-15:30 Speech-to-Speech Translation for Catalan
Victoria Arranz (ELDA - Evaluation and Language resources Distribution
Agency), Elisabet Comelles (TALP - Centre de Tecnologies i Aplicacions
del Llenguatge i la Parla, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya), David
Farwell (Institucio Catalana de Reserca i Estudis Avancats TALP - Centre
de Tecnologies i Aplicacions del Llenguatge i la Parla, Universitat
Politecnica de Catalunya) 
15:30-16:00 SpeechCluster: a speech database builder's multitool
Ivan Uemlianin (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, Bangor) 
16:00-16:30 Coffee break 
16:30-17:00 XNLRDF, A Framework for the Description of Natural Language
Resources. A proposal and first implementation
Oliver Streiter (National University of Kaohsiung), Mathias Stuflesser
(Eurac research, European Academy Bozen/Bolzano) 
17:00-17:30 Towards Effective and Robust Strategies for Finding Web
Resources for Lesser Used Languages
Baden Hughes (Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering,
University of Melbourne) 

Friday 28th October 2005 

09:00-09:45 Implementing NLP-Projects for Small Languages: Instructions
for Sponsors, Strategies for Developers
Oliver Streiter (National University of Koahsiung) 
09:45-10:15 Creating word class tagged corpora for Northern Sotho by
linguistically informed bootsstrapping
Danie Prinsloo (Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria,
South Africa), Ulrich Heid (IMS-CL, Institut fur maschinelle
Sprachverarbeitung, Universitat Stuttgart) 
10:15-10:45 A comparison of approaches towards word class tagging:
disjunctively vs conjunctively written bantu languages
Elsabe Taljard (University of Pretoria), Sonja E. Bosch (University of
South Africa) 
10:45-11:15 Coffee break 
11:15-11:45 Grammar-based language technology for the Sami languages
Trond Trosterud (Universitetet i Tromso) 
11:45-12:15 Annotation of documents for electronic edition of
Judeo-Spanish texts: problems and solutions
Soufiane Rouissi (Universite de Bordeaux 3, Cemic -Gresic), Ana Stulic
(Universite de Bordeaux 3, Ameriber) 
12:15-12:45 Computing Non-Concatenative Morphology: the Case of Georgian
Olya Gurevich (UC Berkeley)
12:45-14:30 Lunch break 
14:30-15:00 The Igbo Language and Computer Linguistics: Problems and
Prospects
Chinedu Uchechukwu (Bramberg, Germany) 
15:00-15:30 Il ladino fra polinomia e standardizzazione: l'apporto della
linguistica computazionale
Evelyn Bortolotti, Sabrina Rasom (Istitut Cultural Ladin "Majon di
Fascegn" ) 
15:30-16:00 The Welsh National On-line Database
Dewi Jones, Delyth Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, Bangor) 
16:00-16:30 Coffee break 
16:30-17:00 Lexicelt: an on-line Welsh/Irish Dictionary
Delyth Prys, Dewi Evans (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales, Bangor) 
17:00-17:30 Stealth Learning with an on-line dog
Ambrose Choy, Gruffudd Prys (Canolfan Bedwyr, University of Wales,
Bangor) 
17:30-18:00 Conclusions

Registration:

http://www.eurac.edu/Org/LanguageLaw/Multilingualism/Projects/conference2005_sub
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