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Program
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Monday May 2,
2011 |
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Excursion trip. Departure from Mediterranean Azur Alexandria at 12:00 pm
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Tuesday May 3,
2011 |
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(9:00
am) Opening Session
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(9:40
am) Keynote Speech: The Language Technology Ecosystem, Richard L. Sites,
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(10:40
am) Tea/Coffee
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(11:00
am) Workshop 1: Leveraging the Web for Building Open Linguistic Data:
Crowd-Sourcing Translation
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(12:40
pm) Lunch
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(2:00
pm) Workshop 2: Any language properly supported in CAT tools
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(3:40
pm) Tea/Coffee
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(4:00
pm) Workshop 3: Locale Workshop: Data Foundation for Language Infrastructure
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Wednesday May 4,
2011 |
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(9:00
am) Keynote Speech: Arabic Langauge Processing and
its Applications, Dr. Nabil Ali
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(10:40
am) Tea/Coffee
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(11:00
am) Localization
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11:00
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Collation Weight Design for Myanmar Unicode
Texts
Tin Htay Hlaing and Yoshiki Mikami
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11:20
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Localising
Microsoft Vista for Yoruba: Experience, Challenges and Future Direction
Tunde Adegbola
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11:40
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Assessing Urdu Language Support on the
Multilingual Web
Huda Sarfraz, Aniqa Dilawari and Sarmad Hussain
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12:00
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LaoWS: Lao Word
Segmentation Based on Conditional Random Fields
Sisouvanh Vanthanavong
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12:20
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Burmese Phrase Segmentation
May Thu Win, Moet Moet Win, Moh
Moh Than, Dr.Myint Myit Than and Dr.Khin Aye
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(12:40
pm) Lunch
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(2:00
pm) Linguistic Resources
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2:00
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Dzongkha Text Corpus
Chungku, Jurmey Rabgay
and Pema Choejey
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2:20
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Towards a Sinhala Wordnet
Viraj Welgama, Dulip Lakmal Herath, Chamila Liyanage, Namal Udalamatta, Ruvan Weerasinghe and Tissa Jayawardhane
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2:40
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CorpusCollie -
A Web Corpus Mining Tool for Resource-Scarce Languages
Doris Hoogeveen and Guy De Pauw
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3:00
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Part-of-Speech Tagging for Under-Resourced and
Morphologically Rich Languages - The Case of Amharic
Martha Yifiru Tachbelie, Solomon Teferra Abate and Laurent Besacier
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3:20
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Language Resources for Mongolian
Purev Jaimaa and Altangerel Chagnaa
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(2:00 pm) Speech Applications I
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2:00
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Dzongkha Phonetic Set Description and
Pronunciation Rules
Dechen Chhoeden, Uden Sherpa, Dawa Pemo and Pema Chhoejey
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2:20
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Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion for Amharic
Text-to-Speech System
Tadesse Anberbir, Tomio Takara, Michael Gasser and Kim Dong Yoon
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2:40
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The Design of a Text Markup System for Yorùbá Text-to-Speech synthesis Applications
Odetunji Ajadi ODEJOBI
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3:00
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Comparing Two Developmental Applications of
Speech Technology
Aditi Sharma Grover and Etienne Barnard
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3:20
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Phonetically Balanced Bangla
Speech Corpus
S.M. Murtoza Habib, Firoj Alam, Rabia Sultana, Shammur Absar Chowdhury and Mumit Khan
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(3:40 pm) Tea/Coffee
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(4:00 pm) Panel Discussion on Issues and Challenges in Local Language Computing: Perspectives from Asia and Africa
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Thursday May 5, 2011 |
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(9:00 am) Langauge Applications I
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HornMorpho: a
system for morphological processing of Amharic, Oromo, and Tigrinya
Michael Gasser
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9:20
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Swahili Inflectional Morphology for the
Grammatical Framework
Wanjiku Nganga
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9:40
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Memory based Approach to Kĩkamba
Name Entity Recognizer
Benson Nzioka Kituku, Peter W. Wagacha and Guy De Pauw
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10:00
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Morphological Analysis and Machine Translation
for Gĩkũyũ
Kamau Chege, Wanjiku Ng'ang'a, Peter W. Wagacha, Guy De Pauw and Jayne Mutiga
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10:20
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Understanding Natural Language through the UNL
Grammar Workbench
Sameh Alansary, Magdy Nagi and Noha Adly
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(10:40 am) Tea/Coffee
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(11:00 am) Speech Applications II
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Evaluation of crowdsourcing
transcriptions for African languages
Hadrien Gelas, Solomon Teferra Abate, Laurent Besacier and François Pellegrino
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11:20
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Development of an Open source Urdu screen Reader
for Visually Impaired People
Madiha Ijaz and Qaiser Durrani
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11:40
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Continuous Sinhala Speech Recognizer
Thilini Nadungodage and Ruvan Weerasinghe
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12:00
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Dzongkha Text-to-Speech Synthesis System - Phase
II
Dechen Chhoeden, Chungku , Chai Wutiwiwatchai, Ananlada Chotimongkol, Anocha Rugchatjaroen and Ausdang Thangthai |
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Bangla Text to
Speech using Festival
Firoj Alam, S.M. Murtoza Habib and Mumit Khan
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(12:40 pm) Lunch
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(2:00 pm) HLT Use
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A Corpus Linguistics-based Approach for
Estimating Arabic Online Content
Anas Tawileh and Mansour Al Ghamdi
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2:20
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Taxonomy of personalisation
for Generating personalised content in Technical
Support Forums
Solomon Gizaw and Jim Buckley
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2:40
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Content independent open-source language
teaching framework
Randil Pushpananda, Chamila Liyanage, Namal Udalamatta and Ruvan Weerasinghe
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3:00
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English to Sinhala Machine Translation: Towards
Better information access for Sri Lankans
Jeevanthi Uthpala Liyanapathirana and Ruvan Weerasinghe
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3:20
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Strategies for Research Capacity Building in
Local Language Computing: PAN Localization Project Case Study
Sana Shams and Sarmad Hussain
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3.40
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Information Extraction and Opinion Organization
for an e-Legislation Framework for the Philippine Senate
Allan Borra, Charibeth Cheng and Rachel Roxas
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(4:00 pm) Tea/Coffee
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(4.20 pm) Panel Discussion on Wider Adoption of HLT for Development in Asia and Africa: The Way Forward
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Organizing Committee:
Dr. Adel El Zaim
International Development Research Centre, Middle East Office, Egypt . (chair)
Dr. Ananya Raihan
D.NET, Bangladesh
Mr. Dwayne Bailey
Zuza Software Foundation, South Africa
Dr. Magdy Nagi
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Egypt
Ms. Manal Amin
Arabize, Egypt
Ms. Maria Ng Lee Hoon
International Development Research Centre, SE&E Asia Office, Singapore
Dr. Peter Waiganjo Wagacha
Univ. of Nairobi, Kenya
Dr. Ruvan Weerasinghe
Univ. of Colombo School of Computing, Sri Lanka
Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Center for Language Engineering, KICS, Univ. of Engr. and Tech., Pakistan |
Alexandria, Egypt
