Field Matters workshop program

Korea Standard Time (KST), UTC +9

October 16

10:00 - 10:10 Opening talk

10:10 - 11:00 Invited talk: Steven Bird. Centring the Speech Community
11:00 - 11:10 Questions
11:10 - 11:30 Coffee break

11:30 - 12:20 Invited talk: Antonios Anastasopoulos. Jointly Building Corpora and Morphosyntactic Analysis Tools
12:20 - 12:30 Questions
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch

Main session (15 min talk + 5 min questions)

• 14:00 - 14:20 A Finite State Approach to Interactive Transcription — William Lane and Steven Bird
• 14:20 - 14:40 Machine Translation Between High-resource Languages in a Language Documentation Setting — Katharina Kann, Abteen Ebrahimi, Kristine Stenzel and Alexis Palmer
• 14:40 - 15:00 How to encode arbitrarily complex morphology in word embeddings, no corpus needed — Lane Schwartz, Coleman Haley and Francis Tyers

15:00 - 15:30 Coffee break

Poster session

15:30 - 17:30 Poster session

• Corpus-Guided Contrast Sets for Morphosyntactic Feature Detection in Low-Resource English Varieties - Tessa Masis, Anissa Neal, Lisa Green, and Brendan O’Connor
• Automatic Detection of Borrowings in Low-Resource Languages of the Caucasus: Andic branch - Konstantin Zaitsev and Anzhelika Minchenko
• The first neural machine translation system for the Erzya language - David Dale
• Abui Wordnet: Using a Toolbox Dictionary to develop a wordnet for a low-resource language - Frantisek Kratochvil and Luís Morgado da Costa
• Predictive Text for Agglutinative and Polysynthetic Languages - Sergey Kosyak and Francis Tyers

17:30 - 17:40 Close