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*** Workshop: Computational Methods for Endangered Language Documentation and Description ***

http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/index.html

*** The number of seats is limited. Registration is mandatory (see below). ***

February 1st-2nd, 2018 Ecole Normale Supérieure, 45 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris France

* Organizers:

Thierry Poibeau (Lattice) Michael Rießler (University of Bielefeld & The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies) Niko Partanen (Lattice & The Freiburg Research Group in Saami Studies) Benjamin Fagard (Lattice).

* Overview

This workshop aims at examining the application of specific methods from Natural Language Processing in order to analyze data from endangered and low-resource languages from Northern Eurasia and other parts of the world. The workshop defines language technologies in a very broad sense and therefore includes also computational methods for signal processing in general, as such technologies can be applied effectively to the work with text corpora linked to multimedia data.

Invited speakers include Joakim Nivre (Uppsala), Francis Tyers (Moscow), Laurent Besacier (Grenoble), Trond Tosterud (Tromsø), Svetlana Toldova (Moscow), Olga Majewska (Cambridge) and Jargal Badagarov (Ulan-Ude).

The programme is now available online (http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/program.html) as well as the list of posters (http://lattice.cnrs.fr/cmld/posters.html). There will be ample time for discussion, as the workshop is also an opportunity to foster collaborations.

* Registration

The event is free but it is necessary to register in advance. In order to register, please send an email with your name and affiliation to: nikotapiopartanen@gmail.com . Participants with talk or poster are automatically registered, but do not hesitate to contact us if there are any questions.

Please come with an ID card, passport or other proof of identity

*** The number of seats is limited. Registration is mandatory. ***

* Acknowledgements

This work has received support of TransferS (laboratoire d’excellence, program “Investissements d’avenir” ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02 PSL* and ANR-10-LABX-0099).

This workshoop is held in coordination with the CNRS-funded programme PRC n° 1052 : Analyse systématique du groupe nominal dans les langues finno-ougriennes : continuité référentielle et codage de la structure informationnelle de l’énoncé.