
CLT20	7th International Conference on Language and Technology 19th - 21st February, 2020 UET, Lahore, Pakistan

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Invited Speakers

Prof. Miriam Butt

Professor for General and Computational Linguistics Department of Linguistics at the University of Konstanz, Germany

Dr. Miriam Butt works primarily on Urdu (syntax, morphology, semantics, some phonology) by taking both synchronic and historical aspects into account. Occasionally, she branches out to other South Asian languages or even work on German. Currently, she is concentrating on the history and distribution of case and complex predicates in South Asian languages.

Prof. Mark Gales

Professor of Information Engineering, Machine Intelligence Laboratory Department of Engineering, Cambridge University

Professor Gales’ research aims to make speech systems simple and intuitive to use; achieving high levels of accuracy and naturalness. His research interests include automatic speech recognition, converting the audio waveform into text, and speech synthesis, converting text into an audio waveform. In addition he investigates various downstream tasks that these technologies enable, such as spoken language learning and assessment.

Dr. Walid Magdy

Assistant Professor at School of Informatics, The University of Edinburgh

Dr. Walid's research interests include Computational Social Science, Data Mining and Natural Language Processing.

Dr. Nadir Durrani

Scientist in Arabic Language Technologies at Qatar Computing Research Institute QCRI

Dr. Nadir's research interests include Machine Translation, Interpretability in Neural Networks, Domain Adaptation and Speech Translation and Synthesis.

Dr. Hassan Sajjad

Scientist in Arabic Language Technologies at Qatar Computing Research Institute QCRI

Dr. Hassan manages a team of researchers working in the area of machine translation and interpretation of deep neural models. In addition, Hassan has worked on several NLP problems involving low-resource languages, morphologically-rich languages, domain adaptation and handling of unknown words.