Center for Language Engineering

Objectives

This certificate aims to develop understanding of the field of Prosodic Analysis and to motivate the participants to conduct the research for local languages.The program will help the participants to identify the less explored areas of research in the context of Urdu. After completing the program, participants will be able to understand:

Speech corpus annotation at segmental and supra-segmental levels
Phonetic comparison of languages
Child language acquisition
Speech communication technology and speech processing
Synthetic speech
Automatic recognition of spoken messages
Speech perception and hearing
Pathologic speech and language

Coverage

The program will cover the following units:

Review of vocalic and consonantal sounds of English/Urdu
Introduction to Phonology of Intonation and Phrasing
Annotation of syllable, word and stress in an utterance
Annotation of break index, pitch accents and intonational phrases

Prerequisite
It is assumed that the training participants would have the prior knowledge of the following:

IPA transcription
Annotation of vocalic and consonantal sounds

Target Audience

This training is targeted for faculty and researchers in the following areas:

Applied Linguistics
English / Urdu Language Teaching
Speech Pathology
Computer Science (Speech Processing)
Electrical and Computer Engineering (Speech Processing)

Program

Day 1: Friday January 25, 2019

Time Duration	Task
12:00 -02:00	Registration
02:00 -04:00	Revision of consonantal and vocalic systems of Urdu
04:00 -04:15	Tea Break
04:15 -05:15	Lab session on the identification of vocalic and consonantal sounds

Day 2: Saturday January 26, 2019

Time Duration	Task
09:30 -10:30	Syllabification
10:30 -11:00	Word Segmentation
11:00 -11:15	Tea Break
11:15 -01:00	Lab session on the annotation of syllable and word tiers
01:00 -01:45	Lunch Break
01:45 -03:45	Stress
03:45 -04:00	Tea Break
04:00 -05:30	Lab session on the annotation of stress tier

Day 3: Friday February 1, 2019

Time Duration	Task
02:00 -03:00	Break Index
03:00 -04:00	Lab session on the annotation of Break Index tier
04:00 -04:15	Tea Break
04:15 -05:15	Pitch and pitch accents
05:15 -06:00	Lab session on the identification of pitch accents

Day 4: Saturday February 2, 2019

Time Duration	Task
09:30 -10:30	Intonational phrase
10:30 -12:00	Lab session on intonational phrase
12:00 -12:15	Tea Break
12:15 -01:30	Prosody-syntax interface
01:30 -02:30	Lunch Break
02:30 -5:00	Open house and Closing ceremony

Registration Fees

Professional (Non-Faculty):	PKR 25,000
Professional (Faculty):	PKR 10,000
Student (PhD & MPhil):	PKR 7,500

Registration Deadline: Registration Closed

Participation will be on first come first served basis
Faculty and students are requested to show their valid original university identity cards for registration
On-site registration will depend on the availability of seats
Registration fees is non-refundable and non-transferable

Payment Procedure:

Participants are requested to pay the registration fee in order to confirm their seat. Payments are to be made in any one of the following ways:

Visit CLE, at University of Engineering and Technology, G.T. Road, Lahore, make payment to Ms. Kashaf Shahzad, Accounts Officer, CLE and get a payment receipt.
Pay through EasyPaisa. Get your payment receipt from CLE, on the first day of the program.

Book payment for Receiver Name: Muhammad Kamran Khan, CNIC: 35202-2789993-7, Phone No. 0300-4441100.

Pay through JazzCash. Get your payment receipt from CLE, on the first day of the program.

Book payment for Receiver Name: Muhammad Kamran Khan, CNIC: 35202-2789993-7, Phone No. 0300-4441100.

Pay through Bank Deposit.

Banking Information is as follows:-

Account Title: KICS-CLE projects
Account No. 063-100-000365-4
Currency: PKR
Bank Name: Askari Bank Limited
Branch: (0063), Baghbanpura Branch
Address: 9-A, Shalimar Link Road Baghbanpura, Lahore, Pakistan

Resource Person

Dr. Sarmad Hussain
Head, CLE, KICS-UET

PhD	Northwestern University, USA
MPhil (Computer Speech and Language Processing)	Cambridge University, UK

Dr. Sarmad Hussain did his doctoral degree in Speech Science with a thesis on Urdu phonetics and phonology. He also worked at Oxford University Phonetics Lab during his doctoral program, working on phonological aspects of stress in Urdu. He had completed his MPhil in Computer Speech and Language Processing where he worked on Urdu text to speech system.

Dr. Sarmad Hussain heads the Center for Language Engineering at Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science, University of Engineering and Technology (UET), Lahore. Before UET, he was heading the Computer Science Department at FAST National University, Lahore, where he was also the founding head of Center for Research in Urdu Language Processing.

His research is focused on developing computing solutions for Pakistani languages, including research in linguistics, localization, language computing standards, speech processing and computational linguistics. He has been serving on many national and international committees. Some of his current international memberships included Security and Stability Advisor Committee of ICANN, Executive Committee of Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing, and Pakistan representative on the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardization of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques. At national level, he currently serves on IDN ccTLD committee of Ministry of IT, National Standards Committee of National Language Authority and is the Chairperson of Society of Natural Language Processing of Pakistan.

He has been awarded by Pakistan Science Academy for his work on Pakistani Languages.

Venue

Seminar Hall,
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science,
University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore

Contact Us

For queries please contact:
CLE Post-Graduate Certificate Program
Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology, G.T. Road,
Lahore, Pakistan
Tel: +92-42-99029450, +92-42-36821444
Email: pgcertificate@cle.org.pk