Jul - Dec 2006

The first version of the Speech Synthesis Markup Language (SSML) 1.1 Requirements have been published and are now available [20th Dec. 2006]

Madan Puraskar Pustakalaya has released a new version of localized Linux Distribution, NepaLinux 1.1 on October 30^th, 2006 [7th Nov. 2006]

The First National Computational Linguistics Seminar was organized by Afghanistan country component of PAN Localization project in partnership with Ministry of Communications (MoC), Islamic Republic of Afghanistan on August 12th, 2006  [14th Sep. 2006]

Language Tags in HTML and XML : W3C has published an article for review about language indicating tags in HTML and XML [8th September 2006]

GSMWord: A new word processing software has been launched which provides easy text input in Unicode for Khmer, Lao and Tham [8th Sep. 2006]

International Workshop on Spoken Language Translation (IWSLT 2006) was held on November 27 ^th - 28^th 2006 at Kyoto, Japan. [29th August 2006]

LRC  XI :  The 11^th  Annual Internationalization and Localization Confrence was held on October 25^th - 26^th 2006 at Dublin, Ireland. [16th August, 2006]

Unicode released Common Locale Data Repository, version 1.4 on July 17^th, 2006 [16th Aug. 2006]

The Unicode Consortium announced the release of a significant update of its widely used Unicode Character Database [UCD] Version 5.0 on July 18^th  2006 [16^th August 2006] 

A Summer School On Language, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Natural Language Processing applications [LAICS-NLP] was held from October 16th - 22nd 2006 at Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand. [16th Aug. 2006]

Summer School in Asian Language Processing : 1^st Summer School on Asian Language Processing organized by PAN Localization project has been successfully completed at August 14^th, 2006 at FAST-NU Lahore, Pakistan [16th Aug. 2006]

 30th Internationalization & Unicode Conference was held from November 15^th - 17^th, 2006 in Washington, D.C., USA [5th Aug. 2006]

 World's first translation software for cell phone is launched by Xiamen Talentedsoft Co. Ltd.  [4th Aug. 2006]

 IJCAI-07: An International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence was held form January 6^th- 12^th, 2007 at Hyderabad, India [12th Jul. 2006]

Digital Earth Summit on Sustainability was held from August 27^th-30^th, 2006 at Auckland, New Zealand  [5th Jul. 2006]

The 8th International IT Conference (IITC2006) was held from September 12^th- 13^th, 2006 at Hotel Cinnamon Grand, Colombo, Sri Lanka [5th Jul. 2006]

International Conference on Next Generation Web Services Practices (NWeSP'06) started from September 25^th-28^th, 2006 at Seoul, Korea [5th Jul. 2006]

Digital Learning India 2006 Conference was held form August 23^rd -25^th, 2006 at Hotel Taj Palace, New Delhi, India [5th Jul. 2006]