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A delegation including the CEO, and Executive Director of a US based NGO; Children of Tomorrow visited CLE on 24th April 2012, to learn about CLE's current research on integration of ICTs in rural schools of Pakistan.
 
CLE is organizing Third Workshop on Internationalized Domain Names for Local Content Development:Policy for ۔پاکستان IDN ccTLD on behalf of Ministry of IT (MoIT), Government of Pakistan, on 20-21 April, 2012, at CLE-KICS-UET.
 
An Urdu text corpus distribution agreement has been signed between Urdu Digest and Center for Language Engineering, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology, Lahore at a meeting in Lahore. Details.
 
Mr. Qaisar Khalid Mahmood, Research Assistant, CLE and M. Phil Scholar, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies (ISCS), University of the Punjab, has presented research paper titled... Details.
 
CLE team has participated in one day Symposium on Document Image Analysis held at LUMS, on 20th March, 2012. Head CLE, Dr. Sarmad Hussain, was the one of the speakers of the workshop. He talked on topic Challenges in Developing Urdu Nastaleeq OCR Systems.
 
Mother Tongue and Heritage for Education and Research (MOTHER), a civil society organization, has been re-organized at a meeting in Islamabad. Representatives of 11 language communities attended the meeting and vowed to work together for upholding the cause of the organization. Details.
 
The government of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa has decided to establish a Regional Languages Authority for the purpose of teaching and promotion of regional languages in the Province of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A bill has already been passed in the KPK provincial assembly.
 
mLab project preparation meeting was held at CLE on 30th December, 2011. The meeting was attended by representatives from all the partner organizations including PSEB, KICS, NCA, Indus Valley and chaired by Zia Imran, Managing Director Pakistan Software Export Board. Details.
 
Chairman National Language Authority Pakistan, Dr Anwaar Ahmed visited CLE on 28th December, 2011 along with the other dignitaries from universities including GCU, PU, BZU and NUML. Details.
 
Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan, Post Doctorate Scholar, from Konstanz University, Germany visited CLE on 23th December, 2011 and discussed upcoming collaborative projects in detail.
 
Admin and Accounts Staff, CLE attended the training on The World Bank Procurement and Implementation Issues, facilitated by Mr. Gurcharan Singh, Senior Procurement Specialist Transport, Water and Information Communication Technology (TWICT), World Bank on 3rd Jan, 2012 at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET, Lahore.
 
Mr. Qaisar Khalid, Research Assistant , CLE and M.Phil student, Institute of Social and Cultural Studies ( ISCS), Punjab University, Lahore was nominated to attend... Details.
 
Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages. Dr. Sarmad Hussain has been a member of the WHOIS Review Team constituted by ICANN, and is one of the authors of its recently published WHOIS Review Draft Report, published for public comment. Details.
 
Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages on the Internet. Dr. Sarmad Hussain, the coordinator of the Arabic Script Case Study team for ICANN's TLD Variant Issues Project, and one of the author of Arabic Case Study Team Issues Report. Details.
 
Researchers at CLE contribute to the global efforts to deploy domain names in local languages on the Internet. Dr. Sarmad Hussain (selected as the coordinator of the Arabic Script team) and Huda Sarfraz have been contributing to this effort as members of a global team working to identify relevant issues for languages using the Arabic script. More Details [1][2].
 
The closing ceremony of Subh-e-Nau project was held on Thursday, 28th of April 2011 at APWA Punjab, Lahore to appreciate the efforts of the workshop participant and to view the digital stories.
 
Conference on Human Lanaguage Technology for Development (HLTD 2011), jointly organized by PAN L10n, ANLoc and IDRC, will be held from 02 to 05 May, 2011 at Alexandria, Egypt.
 
The Department of Information Technology and Telecom of Bhuttan (DITT), Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology of Pakistan (KICS-UET), Language Technology Kendra of Nepal (LTK), ... Details.
 
CLE launches Online Torwali Dictionary on 21st of Feb.2011. It is a collaborative effort of CLE, The Genographic Project of National Geographic and PAN Localization Project of International Development Research Centre, Canada.
 

CLE is participating in Fourth International Conference on Open-Source Systems and Technologies (ICOSST-2010) organized by Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS). ICOSST-2010 will be held at KICS, University of Engineering & Technology (UET) on December 22-24, 2010.

 

CLE is participating in 13th Sustainable Development Conference (SDC) organized by Sustainable Development Policy Institute (SDPI) from 21 to 23 December 2010 in Islamabad, Pakistan. This year’s Conference is titled ‘“Peace and Sustainable Development in South Asia: The Way Forward”.

 

CLE is participating in International Conference on Frontiers of Information Technology 2010 organized by COMSATS from 21 to 23 December 2010 in Islamabad, Pakistan.

 
 

CLE is participating in 13th Oriental COCOSDA (The International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques) 2010. O-COCOSDA 2010 will be held at Kathmandu, Nepal on November 24-25, 2010.

 

CLE in collaboration with Punjab Information Technology Board (PITB) has developed Urdu Language version of Punjab Government’s Flood Relief Website.

 

CLE in collaboration with National Language Authority (NLA) is organizing Conference on Language and Technology 2010 (CLT10). CLT10 will be held at National Language Authority (NLA), Islamabad on October 23, 2010.

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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