TALAf 2016 : Traitement automatique des langues africaines (text and speech)

JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2016 Workshop - Paris 4 July 2016

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Presentation

TALAf workshops take place every two years. The first workshop was held during the JEP-TALN-RÉCITAL 2012 conference on June 8, 2012 in Grenoble (see proceedings: http://aclweb.org/anthology//W/W12/#1300). The second one took place during the TALN 2014 conference on July 1, 2014 in Marseille (see proceedings: http://www.taln2014.org/site/actes-en-ligne/actes-en-ligne-ateliers/).

The third edition of TALAf will be held during the JEP-TALN-RECITAL conference, on July 4, 2016 at INALCO in Paris.

Natural language processing is booming in Africa. Indeed, in many countries, there is an ongoing official recognition of national languages, for instance:

Moreover, a number of colleagues / African scholars trained in the North return to their country with the will to continue their work in local languages. There are also some Diasporas that have technological material allowing them to contribute directly online and on a voluntary basis.

Added to this, the development of bilingual education programs (official / national language) in primary schools in many countries is growing. The official language remaining mostly that of the former colonial country (French, English, Portuguese ...).

On the other hand, mobile phones are spreading fast: with 650 million units, Africa has surpassed the United States and Europe. In many areas, it is easier to install a mobile antenna than fixed lines. Therefore, the people who use a telephone for the first time do it with a mobile terminal. Applications are developed such as money transfer or dissemination of weather reports.

The funding of research projects on these languages can now be obtained from the "Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie" with their calls for projects of the "fonds francophone des inforoutes" (see eg DiLAF or flore projects) or the "Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie". France also supports projects on these languages through the National Agency for Research (see eg ALFFA project).

So the conditions are gathered for the development of natural language processing in Africa, both written and spoken.

In this context, the roles of TALAf workshop are:

TALAf workshops are supported by the non-profit organisation "Lexicologie Terminologie Traduction": http://www.ltt.auf.org/index.php

Program of the workshop

 Session chairperson: Mathieu Mangeot
09h30-10h00Valentin Vydrin, Andrij Rovenchak & Kirill Maslinsky Maninka Reference Corpus: A Presentation. [PDF], [PPTX presentation]
10h00-10h30Ikechukwu Onyenwe, Mark Hepple & Uchechukwu Chinedu Improving Accuracy of Igbo Corpus Annotation Using Morphological Reconstruction and Transformation-Based Learning. [PDF], [PDF presentation]
10h30-11h00Coffee break
 Session chairperson: El Hadj Mamadou Nguer
11h00-11h30Moneim Abdourahamane, Christian Boitet, Valérie Bellynck, Lingxiao Wang & Hervé BlanchonConstruction d’un corpus parallèle français-comorien en utilisant de la TA français-swahili. [PDF]
11h30-12h00David Blachon, Elodie Gauthier, Laurent Besacier, Guy-Noël Kouarata, Martine Adda-Decker & Annie RiallandCollecte de parole pour l'étude des langues peu dotées ou en danger avec l'application mobile Lig-Aikuma. [PDF], [PDF presentation]
12h00-14h00Lunch break
 Session chairperson: Christian Boitet
14h00-14h30Michael Melese Woldeyohannis, Laurent Besacier & Meshesha MillionAmharic Speech Recognition for Speech Translation. [PDF], [Présentation PDF]
14h30-15h00El Hadji Malick Fall, El Hadji Mamadou Nguer, Sokhna Bao Diop, Mouhamadou Khoulé, Mathieu Mangeot & Mame Thierno CisséDigraphie des langues ouest africaines : Latin2Ajami : un algorithme de translittération automatique. [PDF], [PPTX presentation]
 Session chairperson: Chantal Enguehard
15h00-15h30Fatimazahra Nejme, Siham Boulaknadel & Driss AboutajdineDéveloppement de ressources pour la langue amazighe : Le Lexique Morphologique El-AmaLex. [PDF]
15h30-16h00Alla Lo, Elhadji Mamadou Nguer, Abdoulaye Youssoupha Ndiaye, Cheikh Bamba Dione, Mathieu Mangeot, Mouhamadou Khoule, Sokhna Bao Diop & Mame Thierno CisseCorrection orthographique pour la langue wolof : état de l'art et perspectives. [PDF], [PPTX presentation]
16h00-16h30Coffee break
 Session chairperson: Laurent Besacier
16h30-17h00Mouhamdou Khoule, Mathieu Mangeot, El Hadji Mamadou Nguer & Mame Thierno CisseiBaatukaay : un projet de base lexicale multilingue contributive sur le web à structure pivot pour les langues africaines notamment sénégalaises. [PDF], [PPS presentation]
17h00-17h30Chérif Mbodj & Chantal EnguehardProduction et mise en ligne d’un dictionnaire électronique du wolof. [PDF], [PDF presentation]

Programme Committee

Martine Adda-Decker (CNRS-LPP & LIMSI, Paris, France)

Laurent Besacier (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Sokhna Bao Diop (Université Gaston Berger, St Louis du Sénégal, Sénégal)

Philippe Bretier (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Khalid Choukri (ELDA, Paris, France)

Mame Thierno Cissé (ARCIV, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Chantal Enguehard (LINA, Nantes, France)

Núria Gala (LIF, Marseille, France)

Modi Issouf (Ministère de l'Éducation, Niamey, Niger)

Fary Silate Ka (IFAN, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Mathieu Mangeot (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Chérif Mbodj, (Centre de Linguistique Appliquée de Dakar, Sénégal)

Kamal Naït-Zerrad (INALCO, Paris, France)

El Hadj Mamadou Nguer (Université Gaston Berger, St Louis du Sénégal, Sénégal)

Donald Osborn (Bisharat, ltd.)

Francois Pellegrino, (DDL, Lyon, France)

Olivier Rosec (Voxygen, Pleumeur-Bodou, France)

Fatiha Sadat (UQAM, Montréal, Canada)

Aliou Ngoné Seck (FLSH, Université Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar, Sénégal)

Emmanuel Schang (Université d'Orléans, Orléans, France)

Gilles Sérasset (LIG, Grenoble, France)

Max Silberztein (ELLIADD, Université de Franche-Comté, Besançon, France)

Sylvie Voisin (DDL, Lyon, France)

Valentin Vydrin (LLACAN-INALCO, Paris, France)

Important dates

- Submission deadline: 24 April 8 May 2016

- Notification of acceptance: 23 May 2016

- Final Submission Deadline: 3 June 2016

- Workshop: 4 July 2016

Contact

For any question, please contact Mathieu.Mangeot_AT_imag.fr