Subject: " language resources for european minority languages "

pre - final programme and call for participation workshop on " language resources for european minority languages " - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - wednesday may 27 1998 ( morning ) , granada , spain in association with the first international conference on language resources and evaluation , may 28-30 1998 , granada , spain programme : 8 : 00 registration 8 : 30 welcome and introduction 8 : 40 " overview of minority languages in europe " . marc alemany ( catalan sociolinguistic institute ) . 9 : 00 " vocatel and vogatel : two telephone speech databases of spanish minority languages ( catalan and galician ) " . luis villarrubia , paloma leon , luis hernandez ( speech technology group , telefonica i&d , madrid , spain ) ; climent nadeu , ignasi esquerra , javier hernando ( dept . tsc , universitat polite ' cnica de catalunya , barcelona , spain ) ; carmen garcia - mateo , laura docio ( etsit de telecomunicacio ' n , universidad de vigo , vigo , spain ) . 9 : 20 " written linguistic resources in catalan : the dcc project " . joan soler bou ( institut d ' estudis catalans , barcelona , spain ) . 9 : 40 " the melin project " . donncha o ' cro ' ini ' n ( institiu ' id teangeolai ' ochta e ' ireann / linguistics institute of ireland , dublin , ireland ) . 10 : 00 coffee 10 : 30 " a framework for the automatic processing of basque " . i . aldezabal , o . ansa , j . m . arriola , a . di ' az de ilarraza , n . ezeiza , a . maritxalar , m . oronoz , k . sarasola ( euskal herriko unibertsitatea , spain ) ; i . aduriz , m . urkia ( uzei , donostia , spain ) . 10 : 50 " towards the creation of new galician language resources : from a printed dictionary to the galician wordnet " . fernando magan ( ramo ' n pin ~ eiro research center for humanities , santiago de compostela , spain ) . 11 : 10 poster session 1 ( odd-numbered authors at posters ) 11 : 50 poster session 2 ( even-numbered authors at posters ) 12 : 30 plenary 13 : 30 end = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = poster papers - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 " a tagger environment for galician " . m . vilares , j . gran ~ a ( universidad de corunna , spain ) ; t . araujo , d . cabrero , i . diz ( ramo ' n pin ~ eiro research center for humanities , santiago de compostela , spain ) . 2 " a bilingual spanish - catalan database of units for concatenative synthesis " . i . esquerra , a . bonafonte , f . vallverdu ' , a . febrer ( universitat polite ' cnica de catalunya , barcelona , spain ) . 3 " methods and tools for building the catalan wordnet " . l . beni ' tez , s . cervell , g . escudero , m . lo ' pez , g . rigau , m . taule ' ( universitat polite ' cnica de catalunya , barcelona , spain ; universitat de barcelona ) . 4 " lemmatisation of the corpus of cornish " . j . mills ( university of luton , england , uk ) . 5 " speechdat cymru : a large-scale telephony welsh database " . r . j . jones , j . s . mason ( univ . of wales , swansea , wales , uk ) ; l . helliker , m . pawlewski ( bt labs , ipswich , england , uk ) . 6 " kgb project : tools and resources for breton language learning " . j . siroux , h . gourmelon , g . mercier , j - p . messager ( enssat , lannion , france ) . 7 " a speech database in basque language " . k . lo ' pez de ipin ~ a , i . torres , l . on ~ ederra ( euskal herriko unibertsitatea , spain ) . 8 " an overview of the existing language resources for ' gallego ' " . c . garci ' a - mateo ( universidade de vigo , spain ) ; m . gonza ' lez - gonza ' lez ( universidade de santiago , spain ) . 9 " language standardisation and linguistic resources : the case of central ladin ( dolomites ) " . f . ciochetti ( istitut ladin , vigo di fassa , italy ) ; f . pianesi ( irst , trento , italy ) . 10 " the le-parole project and the national corpus of irish " . d . o ' cro ' ini ' n , e . ui ' dhonnchadha ( institiu ' id teangeolai ' ochta e ' ireann / linguistics institute of ireland , dublin , ireland ) . 11 " design of a phonetic corpus for speech recognition in catalan " . i . esquerra , c . nadeu ( universitat polite ' cnica de catalunya , barcelona , spain ) ; l . villarrubia , p . leo ' n ( telefo ' nica investigacio ' n y desarrollo , madrid , spain ) . 12 " levels of annotation for a welsh speech database for phonetic research " . b . williams ( university of edinburgh , scotland , uk ) . - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - workshop scope and aims : the minority or " lesser used " languages of europe ( e . g . basque , welsh , breton ) are under increasing pressure from the major languages . some of them ( e . g . gaelic ) are becoming endangered , but others ( e . g . catalan ) are in a stronger position , with a certain amount of official recognition and funding . however , the situation with regard to language resources is fragmented and disorganised . some minority languages have been adequately researched linguistically , but most have not , and the vast majority do not yet possess basic speech and language resources ( such as text and speech corpora ) which are sufficient to permit commercial development of products . if this situation were to continue , the minority languages of europe would fall a long way behind the major languages , as regards the availability of commercial speech and language products . this in turn will accelerate the decline of those languages that are already struggling to survive , as speakers are forced to use the majority language for interaction with these products . to break this vicious circle , it is important to encourage the development of basic language resources . the workshop is a very small first step towards encouraging the development of such resources . the aim is to share information , so that isolated researchers will not need to start from nothing . an important aspect will be the forming of personal contacts , which at present do not exist . the aim is to make it easier for isolated researchers with little funding and no existing corpora to begin developing a usuable speech or text database . there will be a balance between presentations of existing language resources , and more general presentations designed to give background information . organisers : briony williams university of edinburgh , scotland , uk climent nadeu universitat politecnica de catalunya , catalunya , spain alex monaghan dublin city university , ireland contact ( on * academic * matters only - 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