Conference on Language and Technology 2012 (CLT12)

 
 


University of Engineering & Technology (UET), Lahore
9-10 November, 2012

 


 

Program

[Day 1:Workshops] [Day 2: Paper Presentations]

Day 1: Workshops: 9th November, 2012

Time

Event/Talk/Speaker

Event/Talk/Speaker

8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration
Venue: Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET

Parallel Session A for Computer Science
Venue: Android Lab, Innovation and Incubation Building, Opposite to Main Parking, UET

Parallel Session B for Linguistics
Venue: Huawei Lab, Innovation and Incubation Building, Opposite to Main Parking, UET

9:00 am

Urdu Nastalique Optical Character Recognition

Qurat ul Ain Akram
Sr. Research Associate,
Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology

Urdu Wordnet [ presentation ]

Ayesha Zafar
Sr. Research Associate
Afia Mehmood
Research Assistant
Farhat Abdullah
Research Assistant
Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology

10:30 am

Tea Break

10:50 am

Urdu Nastalique Optical Character Recognition

Qurat ul Ain Akram
Sr. Research Associate,
Center for Language Engineering
Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science
University of Engineering and Technology

Documenting Languages in Danger [ presentation ]

Inam Ullah
Chairperson,
Mother Tongue and Heritage for Education Research, Peshawar

12:20 pm

Presentation by ICT R&D Fund

12:40 pm

Lunch Break

2:00 pm

Urdu Named Entity Recognition

Dr. Waqas Anwar
Assistant Professor,
COMSATS Institute of Information Technology, Abbottabad

Spatial Markers in South Asian languages [ presentation ]

Dr. Tafseer Ahmed
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Karachi

3:30 pm

Tea Break

4:00 pm

Machine Assisted Translation

Asad Abbas Tahir
Lecturer,
Govt. Allama Iqbal Post-Graduate College, Sialkot

Noun/Adj+V Complex Predicates
[ presentation ]

Dr. Tafseer Ahmed
Assistant Professor,
Department of Computer Science,
University of Karachi

Day 2: Paper Presentations: 10th November, 2012
Venue: Seminar Hall, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET

Time

Event/Talk

Speaker

8:30 - 9:00 am

Registration
Venue: Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET

Session 1: Computational Linguistics

9:00 am

A Computational Multilingual Text Constituent Splitter and Phrasing: A Case of Pashto Language

Zaheer Ahmad, Mohammad Abid Khan, Jehan Zeb Khan Orakzai, Rahman Ali, Ibrar Ahmad

9:20 am

Wikipedia is a Practical Alternative to the Web for measuring Co-occurrence based Word Association

Om P. Damani, Pankhil Chedda, Dipak Chaudhari

9:40 am

Comparing Talks, Realities and Concerns over the Climate Change: Comparing Texts with Numerical and Categorical Data

Yasir Mehmood, Timo Honkela

10:00 pm

Survey of Urdu OCR: An Offline Approach

Naila Fareen, Mohammad Abid Khan, Attash Durrani

10:30 am

Tea Break

11:00 am

Opening Ceremony
Venue: Seminar Hall, Al-Khawarizmi Institute of Computer Science (KICS), UET

 

12:30 pm CLE Open House  

1:30 pm

Lunch & Prayer Break

2:30 pm

Poster Session (Instructions)
Error Analysis of Single Speaker Urdu Speech Recognition System Saad Irtza, Dr. Sarmad Hussain
   
A Dictionary based Urdu Word Segmentation using Dynamic Programming for Space Omission Problem Rabiya Rashid, Seemab Latif
   
Complexities and Implementation Challenges in Offline Urdu Nastaliq OCR Danish Altaf Satti, Dr. Khalid Saleem

Session 2: Linguistic Resources

3:00 pm

CLE Urdu Digest Corpus

Saba Urooj, Sarmad Hussain, Farah Adeeba, Farhat Jabeen, Rahila Parveen

3:20 pm

Developing a Part of Speech Tagset for Sindhi

Mutee U Rahman

3:40 pm

Developing Urdu WordNet Using the Merge Approach

Ayesha Zafar, Afia Mahmood, Farhat Abdullah, Saira Zahid, Sarmad Hussain, Asad Mustafa

4:00 pm

Tea Break

Session 3: Phonetics and Phonology

4:20 pm

An Acoustic Study of Vowel Nasalization in Punjabi

Saira Zahid, Sarmad Hussain

4:40 pm The Pitch Contour of Declarative Sentences in Urdu Language Farhat Jabeen, Sarmad Hussain
5:00 pm Urdu Syllable: Templates and Constraints Mazhar Iqbal Ranjha
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