Friday, January 11, 2008 |
| 09:00-09:10 | Natural Language Processing for Less Privileged Languages: Where do we come from? Where are we going?
Anil Kumar Singh |
| | Session 1: |
| 09:10-09:40 | Invited Talk: Building Language Resources: Ways to move forward
Anne David and Micheal Maxwell |
| 09:40-10:00 | KUI: an ubiquitous tool for collective intelligence development
Thatsanee Charoenporn, Virach Sornlertlamvanich, Hitoshi Isahara and Kergrit Robkop |
| 10:00-10:20 | Prototype Machine Translation System From Text-To-Indian Sign Language
Tirthankar Dasgupta, Sandipan Dandpat and Anupam Basu |
| 10:20-11:00 | Break |
| | Session 2: |
| 11:00-11:30 | Invited Talk: Cross Language Resource Sharing
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
| 11:30-11:50 | Joint Grammar Development by Linguists and Computer Scientists
Michael Maxwell and Anne David |
| 11:50-12:10 | Cross-Language Parser Adaptation between Related Languages
Daniel Zeman and Philip Resnik |
| 12:10-12:30 | SriShell Primo: A Predictive Sinhala Text Input System
Sandeva Goonetilleke, Yoshihiko Hayashi, Yuichi Itoh and Fumio Kishino |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch |
| | Session 3: |
| 14:00-14:30 | Invited Talk: Breaking the Zipfian Barrier of NLP
Monojit Choudhury |
| 14:30-15:30 | Poster Display and Discussion |
| An Optimal Order of Factors for the Computational Treatment of Personal Anaphoric Devices in Urdu Discourse
Mohammad Naveed Ali, M. A. Khan and Muhammad Aamir Khan |
| Morphology Driven Manipuri POS Tagger
Thoudam Doren Singh and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| Acharya - A Text Editor and Framework for working with Indic Scripts
Krishnakumar V and Indrani Roy |
| Implementing a Speech Recognition System Interface for Indian Languages
R.K. Aggarwal and M. Dave |
| Indigenous Languages of Indonesia: Creating Language Resources for Language Preservation
Hammam Riza |
| Part-Of-Speech Tagging for Gujarati Using Conditional Random Fields
Chirag Patel and Karthik Gali |
| Speech to speech machine translation: Biblical chatter from Finnish to English
David Ellis, Mathias Creutz, Timo Honkela and Mikko Kurimo |
| 15:30-16:00 | Break |
| | Session 4: |
| 16:00-16:20 | A Rule-based Syllable Segmentation of Myanmar Text
Zin Maung Maung and Yoshiki Mikami |
| 16:20-16:40 | Strategies for sustainable MT for Basque: incremental design, reusability, standardization and open-source
I. Alegria, X. Arregi, X. Artola, A. Diaz de Ilarraza, G. Labaka, M. Lersundi, A. Mayor and K. Sarasola |
| 16:40-17:00 | Design of a Rule-based Stemmer for Natural Language Text in Bengali
Sandipan Sarkar and Sivaji Bandyopadhyay |
| 17:00-17:20 | Finite State Solutions For Reduplication In Kinyarwanda Language
Jackson Muhirwe and Trond Trosterud |
| 17:20-18:00 | Closing Discussion |