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| Title | * 4th SALTMIL Workshop on Minority Languages (Lisbon, May 24) |
| Body | From Steven Bird (sb@cs.mu.oz.au) 20 Dec 2003: The 4th International Workshop of the ISCA Special Interest Group on Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages (ISCA SIG - SALTMIL), will be held in Lisbon, Portugal, on May 24, 2004, as part of the 2004 International Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC). For information on LREC see: http://www.lrec-conf.org/; for SALTMIL see: http://193.2.100.60/SALTMIL/ Titled "First Steps for Language Documentation of Minority Languages: Computational Linguistic Tools for Morphology, Lexicon and Corpus Compilation," the workshop is intended to continue the series of SALTMIL/LREC workshops on computational language resources for minority languages, held in Granada (1998), Athens (2000), and Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (2002). The Lisbon 2004 workshop aims to share information on tools and best practice, so that isolated researchers will not need to start from scratch. An important aspect will be the forming of personal contacts, which can minimize duplication of effort. Information on sources of funding for minority languages will also be presented, and there will be discussion on the strategic priorities that need to be addressed in this area. There will be a balance between presentations of existing language resources, and more general presentations designed to give background information needed by all researchers present. The workshop will feature presentations of existing speech and text databases for minority languages, with particular emphasis on software tools that have been found useful in their development. Topics will include: Linguistic corpora, Automatic Speech Recognition, Acoustic modelling, Dictionary development, Language modelling, Natural Language Processing, Computational lexicography, Machine Translation, and Information retrieval. Papers are invited that describe research and development in the area of Human Language Technology portability. All contributed papers will be presented in poster format. Each submission should include: title; author(s); affiliation(s); and contact author's e-mail address, postal address, telephone and fax numbers. Abstracts (maximum 500 words, plain-text format) should be sent via e-mail to Julie Berndsen (University College Dublin) at: The deadline for abstract submission is 11th February 2004. The registration fees for the workshop are 85 Euro if you are not attending LREC, or 50 Euro if you are attending LREC. These fees will include a coffee break and the Proceedings of the Workshop. Registra- tion will be handled by the LREC Secretariat. |
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