Workshop proceedings:
https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/volumes/2019.nsurl-1/
Technical Program
Wednesday, 11 September 2019
| 09:30 – 10:00 | Opening Session : Opening address |
| 10:00 – 10:20 | Coffee break |
| 10:20 – 12:00 | Oral Session 1: Shared Tasks |
| 10:20 – 10 :45 | Haitham Seelawi, Ahmed Mustafa, Hesham Al-Bataineh, Wael Farhan, Hussein Al-Natsheh, NSURL-2019 Task 8: Semantic Question Similarity in Arabic |
| 10:45 – 11 :10 | Nasrin Taghizadeh, Hesham Faili, NSURL-2019 Task 7: Named Entity Recognition for Farsi |
| 11:10 – 11:35 | Alaa Joukhadar, Huda Saghergy, Leen Kweider and Nada Ghneim. Arabic Dialogue Act Recognition for Textual Chatbot Systems: Spaghetti at NSURL-2019 Task 5: Arabic Speech-Act and Sentiment Classification |
| 11:35 – 10:00 | Thomas Proisl, Peter Uhrig, Andreas Blombach, Natalie Dykes, Philipp Heinrich, Besim Kabashi and Sefora Mammarella. The_Illiterati: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Magahi and Bhojpuri without even knowing the alphabet |
| 12 :00 – 13 :30 | Lunch break |
| 13 :30- | Oral Session 2: Cross language resources |
| 13:30 – 13 :55 | Thazin Myint Oo No Last Name, Ye Kyaw Thu No Last Name, Khin Mar Soe No Last Name and Thepchai Supnithi. Statistical Machine Translation between Myanmar (Burmese) and Dawei (Tavoyan) |
| 13:55 – 14:20 | Hiba Zaidi. An Inferential Phonological Connectionist Approach to the perception of Assimilated-English Connected Speech |
| 14:20-14 :40 | Coffee break |
| 14:40 – 16:00 | Oral Session 3: NLP Tools |
| 14:45-15 :10 | Christian Faggionato and Marieke Meelen. Building a treebank for Old Tibetan |
| 15:10 – 15:35 | Khaing Hsu Wai No Last Name, Ye Kyaw Thu No Last Name, Hnin Aye Thant No Last Name, Swe Zin Moe No Last Name and Thepchai Supnithi. String Similarity Measures for Myanmar Language (Burmese) |
| 15 :35 – 16 :00 | Anand Kumar M. NITK-IT NLP@NSURL2019: Transfer Learning based POS Tagger for Under Resourced Bhojpuri and Magahi Language |
Thursday, 12 September 2019
| 09:00 – 10:00 | Keynote 1: Preslav Nakov
Detecting the “Fake News” before they were even written |
| 10 :10 :15 | Coffee break |
| 10 :15-11 :00 | Keynote 2: Sunday Ojo
Initiatives for African Under resourced Languages |
| 11:00 – 12:40 | Oral Session 4: NLP for African Languages |
| 11:00 – 11:25 | Patrice Yemmene and Laurent Besacier. Motivations, challenges, and perspectives for the development of a Deep Learning based Automatic Speech Recognition System for the under-resourced Ngiemboon Language |
| 11:25 – 11:50 | henaetu Olamma, Michael Kingsley and Sunday Ojo. Hidden Markov-based Part-of-Speech Tagger for Igbo Resource-Scarce African Language |
| 11:50 – 12:15 | heresa Okediya, Ibukun Afolabi, Olamma Iheanetu and Sunday Ojo. Building Ontologyfor Yorùbá Language |
| 12:15 – 12:40 | Ibukunola Abosede Modupe, Tshephisho Joseph Sefara and Ojo Sunday. Yorùbá Gender Recognition from Speech using Attention-based BiLSTM |
| 12 :40 | Closing session |
