SEPLN09-SALTMIL Workshop Programme

nformation Retrieval and Information Extraction for Less Resourced Languages
                                                                   IE-IR-LRL

                                      SEPLN 2009 pre-conference workshop
                               Donostia-San sebastián. Monday 7th September 2009

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 09:00 Registration
 09:15 Opening
 09:30 Invited Talk. Lars Borin
 10:30 Papers  (20+5) min.
      1. Information retrieval and extraction in Maltese and Hebrew:
          Issues in creating web-based corpora and lexical tools for
          less-resourced languages.
          Adam Ussishkin, Jerid Francom, Dainon Woudstra
      2. TETEYEQ: A mharic question answering for factoid question.
          Seid Muhie Yimam, Mulugeta Libsie

 11:20 Coffee break

 11:40 Papers (20+5) min.
      3. Using Wikipedia for Named Entities Translation
          Izaskun Fernandez, Iñaki Alegria, Nerea Ezeiza
      4. Ihardetsi: A Question Answering system for Basque built on
          reused linguistic processors.
          Iñaki Alegria, Olatz Ansa, Xabier Arregi , Arantza Otegi,
          Ander Soraluze

 12:30 Projects (10 min. each)
      1. Babelium Project. Promoting the Use and Learning of Minority
         Languages.
         Juan A. Pereira Varela, Silvia Sanz-Santamaría, Julián
         Gutiérrez Serrano.
      2. A web-based system for multilingual school reports
         David Chan, Dewi Jones, Oggy East
      3. The SALT Cymru Special Interest Group – European Funding
         Encouraging Collaboration Between Academia and Business in
         Wales within the field of Speech and Language Technology.
         Gruffudd Prys
      4. Automated English subtitling of Welsh TV Programmes
          Llio Humphreys
      5. A Dictionary Shell
         Florie Moulin, Laura Laluque, Geróid Ó Néill

 13:20 Panel
       "Less resourced languages and Language technology.
        Short- and medium-term objectives"
        SALTMIL

 13:45 Closing