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From: gasser at cs.indiana.edu (Michael Gasser)
Date: Sat Jan  9 15:43:12 2010
Subject: [am-nlp] Fwd: [AfLaT Newsletter] AfLaT 2010 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
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> From: "[AfLaT]" <guy.depauw@aflat.org>
> Date: December 22, 2009 4:26:42 AM GMT-05:00
> To: <gasser@cs.indiana.edu>
> Subject: [AfLaT Newsletter] AfLaT 2010 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> -------- AFLAT 2010 - FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
> ----------------------------------
>
> 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
>
> In multilingual situations, language technologies are crucial for  
> providing
> access to information and opportunities for economic development. With
> somewhere between 1,000 and 2,000 different languages, Africa is a
> multilingual continent par excellence and presents acute challenges  
> for those
> seeking to promote and use African languages in the areas of business
> development, education, research, and relief aid. In recent times a  
> number of
> African researchers and institutions have come forward that share  
> the common
> goal of developing capabilities in language technologies. This  
> workshop
> provides a forum to meet and share the latest developments in this  
> field. It
> also seeks to include linguists who specialize in African languages  
> and would
> like to leverage the tools and approaches of computational  
> linguistics, as
> well as computational linguists who are interested in learning about  
> the
> particular linguistic challenges posed by African languages.
>
> The workshop will consist of an invited talk, followed by refereed  
> research
> papers in computational linguistics. 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. Submissions should be formatted using the LREC style sheet  
> (to be
> announced later on the Conference web site) and should not exceed  
> four (4)
> pages, including references.
>
> 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.
>
> Submissions will be reviewed by 3 members of the Program Committee.  
> Authors
> of accepted papers will receive guidelines on how to produce camera- 
> ready
> versions of their papers for inclusion in the LREC workshop  
> proceedings.
> Notification of receipt will be emailed to the contact author.
>
> IMPORTANT DATES
>
> Submission deadline: 15 February, 2010
> Notification of acceptance: 12 March, 2010
> Camera-ready papers due: 22 March, 2010
> Workshop: 18 May 2010
>
> ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
>
> + Guy De Pauw (Workshop Chair - Contact Person)
> (1) CLiPS Research Group, University of Antwerp, Prinsstraat 13, 2000
> Antwerpen, Belgium
> (2) School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, PO  
> Box 30197
> - 00100GPO
> Nairobi, Kenya
>
> + Handr? Groenewald
> Centre for Text Technology (CTexT), North-West University  
> (Potchefstroom
> Campus), Potchefstroom 2520, South Africa
>
> + Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
> (1) African Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Rozier 44,  
> 9000 Gent,
> Belgium
> (2) Xhosa Department, University of the Western Cape, Bellville,  
> Republic of
> South Africa
> (3) TshwaneDJe HLT, Pretoria, Republic of South Africa
>
> + Peter Waiganjo Wagacha
> School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, PO Box  
> 30197 -
> 00100GPO Nairobi, Kenya
>
>
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