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"Regional
Conference on Localized ICT Development & Dissemination Across
Asia" |
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Program
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[Technology]
[Training
& Content] |
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[Day1]
[Day2] [Day3]
[Day4] [Day5] |
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Agenda for
Technology Parallel Sessions |
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Role of
Convener
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• Gather all the session
presentations before the session onto single laptop (and to hand them over
to the organizers)
• Start the session on time
• Introduce the aim and scope of
the session
• Briefly introduce the
presenter as s/he is invited for presentation
• Time each presentation and
ensure the presentations end in time
• Guide the session discussion
after the presentations
• Summarize the session findings
in last five minutes of the session and wrap up
• End the session on time |
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Role of
Presenter
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• Prepare presentation slides on
the requested topic and make them available to the convener before the
session
• Make the presentation
available to the organizers for uploading onto the website
• Deliver the presentation
within the allocated time
• Participate and answer queries
in the general discussion at the end of the session |
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Day0: Sunday January 11th
2009:
Excursion
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8:00
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Conference
Tour (Pick up from the Hotel Lobby at 8:00am) |
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Day1: Monday January 12th, 2009
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Time |
Talk/Event |
Speaker |
Organization |
09:00-10:00am |
Opening
Session and Introduction |
Welcome Remarks |
Phonpasit Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Introduction to PAN L10n
Project |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Opening Address by the
Minister |
Bountien Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
10:00-10:30am |
Tea Break |
10:30-12:00pm |
Keynote on
Technology:
Speech to
Speech Translation |
Satoshi
Nakamura |
SLC NICT/ATR, Japan |
12:00-12:45pm
(10 min.
each) |
Project
Progress Summary |
Convener |
Phonpasit
Phissamay |
NAST,
Lao PDR |
RRC Technology |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
RRC Training |
Emmanuel C. Lallana |
Ideacorp, Philippines |
RRC Content |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Regional Evaluation |
Sana Shams |
NUCES, Pakistan |
12:45-1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00pm
(10 min.
each) |
Local
Language Computing Standards: Status and Current Work |
Convener |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Dzongkha |
Tenzin Dendup |
DIT, Bhutan |
Lao |
Valaxay Dalaloy |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Sinhala |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Nepali |
Amar Gurung |
MPP, Nepal |
African Locales |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South Africa |
General Discussion on
Challenges and Solutions
for Standards Development |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Tea Break |
3:30-5:00pm
(15 min.
each) |
Open Source
Software Localization |
Convener |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South Africa |
Dzongkha Linux |
Tenzin Dendup |
DIT, Bhutan |
NepaLinux |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
OSS Localization for Urdu |
Huda Sarfraz |
NUCES, Pakistan |
OSS Localization in Mongolian |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Open Office Plug-ins for Khmer |
Ahmed Muaz |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
General Discussion on
Challenges and Solutions
for OSS Localization |
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5:00-6:00pm
(10 min.
each) |
Internationalized Domain Names |
Convener |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Introduction |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Case from Bhutan |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
Case from Cambodia |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
ASIWG: Case of Script
Community Organization |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
General Discussion of Way
Forward |
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6:00-7:00pm |
Break |
7:00 onwards |
Conference
Dinner (Pick up from the Hotel Lobby at 7:00pm) |
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Day2:
Tuesday
January 13th, 2009
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Time |
Talk/Event |
Speaker |
Organization |
09:00-10:30am
(10 min. each)
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Corpus Collection, Cleaning, Translation and Related
Applications |
Convener |
Satoshi Nakamura |
SLC, ATR, Japan |
Bahasa Indonesia Corpus Design and Collection |
Hammam Riza |
BPPT, Indonesia |
Urdu English Parallel Corpus |
Atif Gulzar |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Nepali English Parallel Corpus |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
Mongolian Corpus and Cleaning Tools |
Jamai Purev |
NUM, Mongolia |
Lao Corpus |
Somseng Xayavong |
ILR, Lao PDR |
Sinhala Corpus |
Dulip Herath |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
General Discussion on Collection, Cleaning,
Translation and IPR Issues |
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10:30-11:00am |
Tea Break |
11:00-12:30pm
(10 min. each)
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POS Tagset Design, Tagging Status and Challenges |
Convener |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Tagest and Tagging for Bahasa Indonesia |
Mirna Adriani |
UI, Indonesia |
Mongolian Tagset and Tagging: Requirement of an
Agglutinative Language |
Jamai Purev |
NUM, Mongolia |
Challenges of POS tagging Khmer Corpus |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Tagset and Tagging Bangla Corpus |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Tagset and Tagging Urdu Corpus |
Atif Gulzar |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Tagset and Tagging Nepali Corpus |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
General Discussion on Devising a Core Tagset and
Associated Issues |
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12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00pm
(10 min.
each) |
Lexical Resources and Wordnets |
Convener |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Bangla |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Dzongkha |
Tenzin Dendup |
DIT, Bhutan |
Lao |
Valaxay Dalaloy |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Sinhala |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Mongolian |
Jamai Purev |
NUM, Mongolia |
General Discussion on Available and Developing
Lexical Resources |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Tea Break |
3:30-4:30pm
(15 min.
each) |
Scripts, Segmentation and OCR I |
Convener |
Wasin Sinthupinyo |
NECTEC, Thailand |
OCR Framework |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Bangla OCR |
Md. Abul Hasnat |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Sinhala OCR |
Dulip Herath |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Urdu OCR |
Ahmed Muaz |
NUCES, Pakistan |
4:30-6:00pm
(15 min.
each)
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Scripts, Segmentation and OCR II
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Convener |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Lahore |
NECTEC Multilingual OCR Collaboration |
Wasin Sinthupinyo |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Nepali OCR and Bangla Collaboration |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
Dzongkha OCR and Thai Collaboration |
Tenzin Dendup |
DIT, Bhutan |
Khmer OCR and Urdu Collaboration |
Sochenda Khem |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Lao OCR and Thai Collaboration |
Chittaphone Chansylilath |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Status, Challenges and Solutions for Development
of OCR Systems |
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6:00pm |
Break |
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Day3: Wednesday January 14th, 2007
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Time |
Talk/Event |
Speaker |
Organization |
09:00-10:30am
(10 min. each)
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Language Processing Applications:
Spelling Checkers |
Convener |
Mirna Adriani |
UI, Indonesia |
Bangla |
Md. Abul Hasnat |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Nepali |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
Mongolian |
Jamai Purev |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Khmer |
Sochenda Khem |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Lao |
Phonpasit Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Tibetan |
QunNuo |
TU, China |
Filipino |
Allan Borra |
DLSU, Philippines |
General Discussion on Challenges and Solutions
for Language Processing for Asian Languages |
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10:30-11:00am |
Tea Break |
11:00-12:30pm
(10 min. each)
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Language Processing Applications |
Convener |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Lao Word Segmentation |
Valaxay Dalaloy |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Khmer Word Segmentation |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Tibetan Word Segmentation |
QunNuo |
TU, China |
Stemmer, Chunker, Grammar Analyzer |
Bal Krishna Bal |
MPP, Nepal |
Stemmer, Morphological Analyzer, Others |
Md. Abul Hasnat |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Language Processing in Filipino
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Allan Borra
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DLSU, Philippines |
General Discussion on Challenges and Solutions
for Language Processing for Asian Languages |
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12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00pm
(15 min.
each) |
Speech Applications: Development, Status, Challenges and
Quality I |
Convener |
Chai Wutiwiwatchai |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Bangla |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Dzongkha |
Tenzin Dendup |
DIT, Bhutan |
Khmer |
Long Seangmeng |
ITC, Cambodia |
Sinhala |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
General Discussion on TTS for Asian Languages |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Tea Break |
3:30-5:00pm
(15 min.
each) |
Speech Applications: Development, Status, Challenges and
Quality II |
Convener |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
NECTEC Collaboration for TTS Development |
Chai Wutiwiwatchai |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Lao TTS |
Chittaphone Chansylilath |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Dzongkha TTS |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
Mongolia ASR |
Altangerel |
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General Discussion on Challenges and Solutions
for Speech Processing for Asian Languages |
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5:00-6:00pm
(15 min.
each) |
Machine Translation |
Convener |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
TLC, Thailand |
Sinhala-English – Translation Memory |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Bahasa-English – Statistical MT Framework |
Hammam Riza |
BPPT, Indonesia |
MT for Asian Languages |
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6:00pm |
Break |
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Day4: Thursday January 15th, 2007
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Time |
Talk/Event |
Speaker |
Organization |
9:00-10:30am
(10 min. each)
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Licensing and Distribution of Resources and Applications |
Convener |
Hammam Riza |
BPPT,
Indonesia |
Local/National Issues in
Cambodia |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
Local/National Issues in
Sri Lanka |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Local/National Issues in
Mongolia |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia
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Perspective from PAN
Localization Project |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Role of IJCNLP |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Licensing and
Distribution of Resources in Africa |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South
Africa |
GSK: Development and
Distribution of Resources |
Hitoshi Isahara |
NICT, japan |
General Discussion on
Challenges and Solutions
for Language Resource
Development, Licensing,
and Distribution in Asia |
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10:30-11:00am |
Tea Break |
11:00-12:30pm
(10 min. each)
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Status of HR Development for Language Computing Technology
and Future Goals |
Convener |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
ADD Training Program and IJCNLP |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
NECTEC, Thailand |
NECTEC Collaborations |
Chai Wutiwiwatchai |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Perspectives from Laos |
Phonpasit Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Perspectives from Nepal |
Amar Gurung |
MPP, Nepal |
Perspectives from Indonesia |
Mirna Adriani |
UI, Indonesia |
Perspectives from Mongolia |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Status in Africa |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South Africa |
General Discussion on Challenges and Solutions |
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12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00pm
(10 min.
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From Technology to Access and Generation of Local Language
Content: Bridging the Digital Divide |
Convener |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ. Bangladesh |
Case of Bangladesh |
Masum Billah |
D.NET, Bangladesh |
Case of Bhutan |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
Case of Cambodia |
Noy Shoung |
NIDA, Cambodia |
Case from Pakistan |
Huda Sarfraz |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Case from Nepal |
Amar Gurung |
MPP, Nepal |
Case from Sri Lanka |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Need for Training |
Emmanuel C. Lallana |
Ideacorp, Philippines |
General Discussion on Content Access and
Generation in Local Languages |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Tea Break |
3:30-6:00pm
(10 min.
each) |
GenderedOM: An Integrated Approach to Planning, Monitoring
and Evaluation Online |
GenderedOM: An Integrated Approach
to Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation Online |
Sana Shams, Mudasir Mustafa |
NUCES, Pakistan |
6:00pm |
Break |
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Day5: Friday January 16th, 2009
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Time |
Talk/Event |
Speaker |
Organization |
9:00-10:30am
(10 min. each)
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Policy Considerations for Development and Deployment of
Local Language Computing and Content I |
Convener |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Bangladesh |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Bhutan |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
Cambodia |
Noy Shoung |
NIDA, Cambodia |
China (TAR) |
QunNuo |
TU, China |
Indonesia |
Hammam Riza |
BPPT, Indonesia |
Japan |
Hitoshi Isahara |
NICT, Japan |
Laos |
Phonpasit Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
10:30-11:00am |
Tea Break |
11:00-12:30pm
(10 min. each)
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Policy Considerations for Development and Deployment of
Local Language Computing and Content II |
Convener |
Hammam Riza |
BPPT, Indonesia |
Mongolia |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Nepal |
Amar Gurung |
MPP, Nepal |
Pakistan |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Sri Lanka |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
Thailand |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
NECTEC, Thailand |
African Perspective |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South Africa |
General Discussion on Challenges and Solutions |
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12:30-1:30pm |
Lunch Break |
1:30-3:00pm
(10 min. each) |
Evaluation of Progress, and Suggestions for the Future |
Convener |
Amar Gurung |
MPP, Nepal |
RRC Technology |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
RRC Training |
Emmanuel C. Lallana |
Ideacorp, Philippines |
RRC Content |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Regional Evaluation |
Sana Shams |
NUCES, Pakistan |
General Discussion |
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3:00-3:30pm
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Tea Break |
3:30-5:30pm
(5 min. each)
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Sustainability of the work and PAN L10n network: Vision
Beyond 2010 |
Convener |
Sarmad Hussain |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Bangladesh |
Mumit Khan |
BRAC Univ., Bangladesh |
Bhutan |
Pema Choejey |
DIT, Bhutan |
Cambodia |
Chea Sok Huor |
MoEYS, Cambodia |
China |
QunNuo |
TU, China |
Indonesia |
Mirna Adriani |
UI, Indonesia |
Laos |
Phonpasit Phissamay |
NAST, Lao PDR |
Mongolia |
Batpurev Batchuluun |
Infocon, Mongolia |
Nepal |
Amar Gurung
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MPP, Nepal
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Pakistan |
Sana Shams |
NUCES, Pakistan |
Sri Lanka |
Ruvan Weerasinghe |
UCSC, Sri Lanka |
IJCNLP |
Virach Sornlertlamvanich |
NECTEC, Thailand |
Japan |
Hitoshi Isahara |
NICT, Japan |
Africa |
Dwayne Bailey |
Translate.org, South Africa |
General Discussion
Network |
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5:30pm |
Break |
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