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Briony Williams May 23rd 2006

Welcome to the SALTMIL workshop: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages”. Briony Williams May 23rd 2006. Practical matters. Timetable: 7 talks, 16 posters. Coffee: 11:00 End of workshop: 13:30 (please remove posters quickly).

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Briony Williams May 23rd 2006

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  1. Welcome to the SALTMIL workshop: “Strategies for developing machine translation for minority languages” Briony Williams May 23rd 2006

  2. Practical matters • Timetable: 7 talks, 16 posters. • Coffee: 11:00 • End of workshop: 13:30 (please remove posters quickly). • Speakers: 20 minutes talk, c. 10 minutes questions. • Attendance record sheet: please enter your details and return it to me.

  3. Workshop organisers • Briony Williams, University of Wales, Bangor, UK (Programme Chair) • Atelach Alemu Argaw, University of Stockholm, Sweden • Julie Berndsen, University College Dublin, Ireland • Mikel Forcada, University of Alacant, Spain • Anna Sågvall Hein, University of Uppsala, Sweden • Lori Levin, Carnegie-Mellon University, USA • Bojan Petek, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia • Kepa Sarasola, University of the Basque Country

  4. SALTMIL SIG • “Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages” • ISCA Special Interest Group • Website: http://isl.ntf.uni-lj.si/SALTMIL/index.htm • Discussion list (199 members): http://groups.yahoo.com/group/saltmil/ • Half-day workshops: LREC 1998 (Granada); LREC 2000 (Athens); LREC 2002 (Las Palmas); LREC 2004 (Lisbon); 2006 (Genoa); LREC 2008??? • We need more members and more activity!

  5. Speakers • 8:30 Stephen Krauwer (University of Utrecht, Netherlands) "ENABLER, BLARK, what's next?" • 9:00 Delyth Prys (University of Wales, Bangor, UK) "The BLARK matrix and its relation to the language resources situation for the Celtic languages" • 9:30 Christian Monson, Ariadna Font Llitjós, Roberto Aranovich, Lori Levin, Ralf Brown, Eric Peterson, Jaime Carbonell & Alon Lavie (Carnegie-Mellon University and University of Pittsburgh, USA) "Building NLP Systems for Two Resource-Scarce Indigenous Languages: Mapudungun and Quechua" • 10:00 Mikel Forcada (University of Alacant, Spain) "Open source machine translation: an opportunity for minor languages" • 10:30 Anna Sågvall Hein & Per Weijnitz (University of Uppsala, Sweden) "Approaching a new language in machine translation" • 11:00 Coffee • 11:30 Daniel Yacob (Director, Ge'ez Frontier Foundation) "Unicode Development for Under-Resourced Languages". • 12:00 Maja Popovic & Hermann Ney (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) "Statistical Machine Translation with and without a bilingual training corpus“ • 12:30 Posters

  6. Posters • Tod Allman & Stephen Beale, "A Natural Language Generator for Minority Languages". • Saba Amsalu & Sisay Fissaha Adafre, "Machine Translation for Amharic: Where we are". • Carme Armentano-Oller and Mikel Forcada, "Open-source machine translation between small languages: Catalan and Aranese Occitan". • Arantza Casillas, Arantza Díaz de Illarraza, Jon Igartua, R. Martínez & Kepa Sarasola, "Compilation and Structuring of a Spanish-Basque Parallel Corpus". • Bostjan Dvorák, Petr Homola, Vladislav Kubon, "Exploiting Similarity in the MT into a Minority Language". • Adrià de Gispert and José B. Mariño, "Catalan-English Statistical Machine Translation without Parallel Corpus: Bridging through Spanish". • Jorge González, Antonio L. Lagarda, José R. Navarro, Laura Eliodoro, Adrià Giménez, Francisco Casacuberta, Joan M. de Val and Ferran Fabregat, "SisHiTra: A Spanish-to-Catalan hybrid machine translation system". • Dafydd Jones and Andreas Eisele, "Phrase-based statistical machine translation between Welsh and English". • Svetla Koeva, Svetlozara Lesseva and Maria Todorova, "Bulgarian sense tagged corpus". • Mirjam Sepesy Mauèec and Zdravko Kaèiè, "Statistical machine translation using the IJS-ELAN Corpus" • Sara Morrissey and Andy Way, "Lost in Translation: The Problems of Using Mainstream MT Evaluation Metrics for Sign Language Translation". • Alicia Pérez, Inés Torres, Francisco Casacuberta and Víctor Guijarrubia, "A Spanish-Basque weather forecast corpus for probabilistic speech translation". • Kevin Scannell, "Machine translation for closely related language pairs". • Oliver Streiter, Mathias Stuflesser and Qiu Lan Weng, "Models of Cooperation for the Development of NLP Resources: A Comparison of BLARK and XNLRDF". • John Wogan, Brian Ó Raghallaigh, Áine Ní Bhriain, Eric Zoerner, Harald Berthelsen, Ailbhe Ní Chasaide and Christer Gobl, "Developing a Spoken Corpus and a Synthesiser for Irish". • Pavel Zheltov, "An Attribute-Sample Database System for describing Chuvash affixes".

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