Program

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Day 1: 17th November, 2016
Venue: KICS Seminar Hall, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
9:00 am - 9:30 am Conference Registration & Information Desk Open
Reception, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET, Lahore, Pakistan
9:30 am - 9:45 am Recitation, Inauguration/Welcome address
Time Tutorials/Talks-Paper Title Tutorials/Talks-Speaker
9:45 am - 10:30 am Questions in Urdu: Word Order and Intonation Dr. Miriam Butt
Professor of theoretical and computational linguistics & HoD Linguistics, Universität Konstanz, Germany
10:30 am - 11:00 am Tea Break
11:00 am - 11:30 am Speech-based Social Media for Low-Literate Masses Dr. Agha Ali Raza
Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science, Information Technology University (ITU), Lahore, Pakistan.
11:30 am - 12:00 pm Reverse Sonority Clusters: Developing a Model for Descriptive Analysis Dr. Muhammad Kamal Khan
Assistant Professor, Shaheed Benazir Bhutto University, Sheringal, Dir Upper, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan
12:00 pm - 12:30 pm Internationalized Domain Names Mr. Inamullah
Convener, CLAN (Consortium for Language Advocacy and Networking)
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm Break Index (BI) Annotated Speech Corpus for Urdu TTS Ms. Saba Urooj
Assistant Professor and Senior Research Officer, Center for Language Engineering, KICS, Lahore
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Lunch Break
Session Chair: Dr. Hassan Sajjad
2:00 pm - 2:20 pm Development of Sindhi Lexical Functional Grammar Mutee U Rahman and Hameed ullah Kazi
2:20 pm - 2:40 pm Automatic Derivation of Nouns from Adjectives in Pashto Tariq Naeem and Mohammad Abid Khan
2:40 pm - 3:00 pm Morphology of Mewati Language Nadia Freed
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Tea Break
Session Chair: Dr. Muhammad Kamal Khan
3:30 pm - 3:50 pm Acoustic Investigation of /l, j, v/ as Approximants in Urdu Sahar Rauf, Saadia Ambreen, Sarmad Hussain and Benazir Mumtaz
3:50 pm - 4:10 pm Identification of Diphthongs in Urdu and their Acoustic Properties Rashida Bhatti and Benazir Mumtaz
4:10 pm - 4:30 pm Urdu Phonological Rules in Connected Speech Mahwish Farooq and Benazir Mumtaz

Day 2: 18th November, 2016
Venue: KICS Seminar Hall, University of Engineering & Technology, Lahore, Pakistan
8:30 am - 9:00 am Conference Registration & Information Desk Open
Reception, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET, Lahore, Pakistan
Time Tutorials/Talks-Paper Title Tutorials/Talks-Speaker
9:00 am - 9:30 am Urdu TreeBank Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan
PhD (Computational Linguistics), Universität Konstanz, Germany
Assistant Professor & HoD CS, DHA Suffa University, Karachi, Pakistan
9:30 am - 10:00 am Neural Machine Translation Dr. Hassan Sajjad and Dr. Nadir Durrani
Scientist (Arabic Language Technologies) Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI), Hammad Bin Khalifa University, Qatar
10:00 am - 10:30 am Deep Learning and Optical Character Recognition Dr. Faisal Shafait
Associate Professor, School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (SEECS)
National University of Sciences and Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan
10:30 am - 10:45 am Tea Break
Session Chair: Dr. Tafseer Ahmed Khan
10:45 am - 11:05 am A Comprehensive Image Dataset of Urdu Nastalique Document Images Qurat Ul Ain Akram
11:05 am - 11:25 am Named Entity Dataset for Urdu NER Task Wahab Khan, Ali Daud and Jamal Abdul Nasir
11:25 am - 11:45 am Resources for Urdu Text Stemming Abdul Jabbar and Sajid Iqbal
Session Chair: Dr. Agha Ali Raza
11:45 am - 12:05 pm Urdu Text Genre Identification Farah Adeeba, Sarmad Hussain, Qurat-ul-Ain Akram
12:05 pm - 12:25 pm Clustering Urdu News Using Headlines Samia Khaliq, Waheed Iqbal, Faisal Bukhari and Kamran Malik
12:25 pm - 12:45 pm Subjective Testing of Urdu Text-to-Speech (TTS) System Kh. Shahzada Shahid, Tania Habib, Benazir, Mumtaz, Farah Adeeba and Ehsan Ul Haq
12:45 pm - 1:00 pm Conference Group Picture
1:00 pm - 2:30 pm Lunch & Juma prayer break
2:30 pm - 3:30 pm Poster Presentations/CLE open house
Venue: CLE Lab, 1st Floor, Huawei Building
3:30 pm - 4:00 pm Tea Break
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm Panel Discussion Title: Building Synergies and Collaborations
Panelists:
Dr. Sarmad Hussain, Dr. Faisal Shafait, Dr. Qasim Bughio. Dr. Marium Butt, Dr. Maria Maldonado, Dr. Soabah Wasim, Dr. Sadaf Abdul Rauf, Dr. Nasir Abbas Syed
5:00 pm - 5:30 pm Closing and Certificate Distribution Ceremony

Re-cap of CLT 16 by Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Re-cap of Workshop on Pattern Recognition by Dr. Faisal Rashid
Distribution of Souvenirs
Closing Address by the Vice Chancellor, UET, Lahore
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