Workshop on Balkan Language Resources and Tools
21 November 2003, Thessaloniki, Greece
(satellite event to the Balkan Conference on Informatics - BCI 2003)
Workshop venue: University of Macedonia (UoM)
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PROGRAMME

 
  9.15   9.30 Introduction 
 

    Session 1. Language Resources
Session chair: Maria Gavrilidou 
   
 
  9.30 Language resources for the creation of a Bulgarian
Treebank (K. Simov, P. Osenova, S. Kolkovska, E. Balabanova, D. Doikoff)
10.00 Compilation and validation of morphological resources (E. Paskaleva)
10.30 An overview of Resources & Basic Tools for the
processing of Serbian written texts (D. Vitas, C. Krstev, I. Obradovic, L. Popovic, G.Pavlovic-Lazetic
11.00 Building multi-purpose linguistic resources for Modern Greek: a deep Modern Greek Grammar (V. Kordoni, J. Neu) Paper Presentetion

 
11.30 12.00 Coffee Break
 

    Session 2. Multilingual Applications
Session chair: Ivan Obradovic 
   
 
12.00 Language Tools and Computer Assisted 2nd Language Learning:Teaching Greek in the Primary Schools of Turkish-speaking Minority of Thrace (A. Iordanidou, M. Tzevelekou)
12.30 Interactive Generation of Bulgarian and German NL
explanations in Encyclopaedic Style (G. Angelova, K. Bontcheva, K. Toutanova
13.00 Enhancing Translation Systems with Statistical Bi-lingual Concordancing Functionalities (V. Antonopoulos, C. Malavazoa, Y. Triantafyllou, S. Piperidis)

 
13.30 14.30 Lunch
 

    Session 3. Tools - I
Session chair: Elena Paskaleva 
   
 
14.30 BulStem: Design and Evaluation of Inflectional Stemmer for Bulgarian (P. Nakov)
15.00 Retrieving words from their Meanings (I. Durgar El-Kahlout, K. Oflazer)

 

15.30 16.30 Session 4. Posters
Session chair: Ilknur Durgar 
   


The CLARK System Tools XML based Corpora
development (K. Simov, A. Simov, K. Ivanova, I. Grigorov, H. Ganev)
 
A morphological tagger for standard albanian
(J. Trommer, D. Kallulli)
 
ArtsSemNet: From bilingual dictionary to Bilingual semantic Network (I. Atanassova, S. Nakov, P. Nakov)  
An Inheritance based Description of Bulgarian Noun Inflection (K. Bontcheva, J. Kilbury)  
Formal representation of the syntactic environment and semantic features of verbs (S. Koeva)  
Aligning, Annotating and Lemmatizing a Corpus for the Validation of Balkan WordNets (H. Kornilakis, M. Grigoriadou, E. Galiotou, E. Papakitsos)  

16.30 17.00 Coffee Break

    Session 5. Tools II & Infrastructure
Session chair: Kiril Simov 
   
  
17.00 Building Prosodic Structures in a Concept-to-Speech
System (G. Xydas, D. Spiliotopoulos, G. Kouroupetroglou)
17.30 Using the Ellogon Natural Language Engineering Infrastructure (G. Petasis, V. Karkaletsis, G. Paliouras, C.D. Spyropoulos)
18.00 Language Resources in the Balkan area (E. Desipri, M. Gavrilidou, P. Labropoulou)

 
18.30 18.45 Conclusions