📰 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009 — accepted papers

Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009 is the 2009 edition of the Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, held in Athens, Greece, March 2009 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 16 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions.

📍 Athens, Greece · 🗓 March 2009

All accepted papers (16)

The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original.

1. A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology ↗Raphael Finkel, Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi
2. A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method ↗Piotr Bański, Beata Wójtowicz
3. An Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS) ↗Steven Moran
4. Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages ↗Tunde Adegbola
5. Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages ↗Jaco Badenhorst, Charl van Heerden, Marelie Davel et al.
6. Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral MethodTadesse Anberbir, Tomio Takaraour summary
7. Exploiting Cross-Linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology ↗Laurette Pretorius, Sonja Bosch
8. Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools ↗Christian Chiarcos, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic et al.
9. Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa ↗Tebogo Gumede, Madelaine Plauché
10. Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages ↗Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylov
11. Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech TaggingBjörn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw et al.our summary
12. Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words ↗Gertrud Faaß, Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard et al.
13. Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography ↗Rigardt Pretorius, Ansu Berg, Laurette Pretorius et al.
14. The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili ↗Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver
15. Towards an Electronic Dictionary of Tamajaq Language in Niger ↗Chantal Enguehard, Issouf Modi
16. Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana ↗Hendrik Johannes Groenewald

📄 Papers with our summary in our library (2)

The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's).

1. Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech TaggingWorkshop on Language Technologies for African LanguagesBjörn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw, et al.2009 · 38 citations
2. Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral MethodWorkshop on Language Technologies for African LanguagesTadesse Anberbir, Tomio Takara2009 · 9 citations

🧭 Top topics

Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each.

Semitic languages (2)🔤Part-of-speech tagging (1)🎙️Speech & spoken language (1)

📚 Fields

🎭Arts and Humanities (2)🖥️Computer Science (2)💭Psychology (1)

🧑‍🔬 Top authors

Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works.

🏛️ Top institutions

Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works.

🎓Stockholm UniversityStockholm · Sweden1 work here🤝Swedish Institute of Computer ScienceKista · Sweden1 work here🎓Addis Ababa UniversityAddis Ababa · Ethiopia1 work here

Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library.

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