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*TLRF 2015, February 19-20, 2015, Paris area (Meudon) – France*
http://tlrf2015.sciencesconf.org/ (web site in French)
IMMI-CNRS, DGLFLF, LIMSI-CNRS and ELRA / ELDA organize a 2-day
conference addressing*technology development for the regional languages
of France*.
It will be held on February 19 and 20, 2015 in the Paris area. Sixty
participants, including representatives of the DGLFLF, and of regional
and national authorities and agencies, scientific experts and members of
regional languages protection associations in France and Europe, are
expected to take part in the conference.
We basically started from the observation that breakthroughs in Natural
Language Processing only exist for 1% of the languages spoken in the
world, with little or no coverage for most regional languages, in France
as well.
However, for some languages like Basque and Catalan, in Spain, among
others, combining a strong political will to scientific knowledge and
technical know-how, can lead to the rapid development of
state-of-the-art technologies, providing them with the necessary
language resources and tools. This process also boosts more basic
research activities on those languages and allows to tackle the
challenge of establishing a real multilingualism taking into account
dialectal variants, while enabling the development of strong added-value
applications for local authorities (e.g., in the tourism sector).
This conference aims at bringing together linguists, specialists in
language processing, representatives of national and regional
authorities and offices of regional languages in order to:
• conduct a survey on the development of existing technologies;
• show successful examples of development for some languages;
• propose realistic solutions that can overcome the existing gaps.
The programme of this first conference will consist of oral
presentations and panel sessions resulting in drafting an action plan,
backed up by a series of future conferences, if needed.
http://tlrf2015.sciencesconf.org/program
*_Registration
_*
The 160 € "Academic" fee for the two-day conference includes lunches and
coffee breaks on both days, and the social dinner on Thursday, February
19 (see details on the web site).
You may also wish to support the conference by choosing the "Sponsoring"
fee at 260 €.
Registration is open on the AzurColloque web site:
http://dr04.azur-colloque.cnrs.fr/inscriptions.php
The registration process is done in two steps:
1. pre-registration to be confirmed by the organizer,
2. final registration with online payment or through a purchase order.
Live video streaming of the conference (in French) will be available at
http://webcast.in2p3.fr/live/tlrf
Contact: [email protected]
Organizers: CNRS, DGLFLF, ELRA/ELDA, IMMI, LIMSI
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