Saturday, May 25, 2024 |
| 09:00–09:05 | Opening |
| 09:05–09:30 | Doing Phonetics in the Rift Valley: Sound Systems of Maasai, Iraqw and Hadza
Alain Ghio, Didier Demolin, Michael Karani and Yohann Meynadier |
| 09:30–09:55 | Kallaama: A Transcribed Speech Dataset about Agriculture in the Three Most Widely Spoken Languages in Senegal
Elodie Gauthier, Aminata Ndiaye and Abdoulaye Guissé |
| 09:55–10:20 | Long-Form Recordings to Study Children’s Language Input and Output in Under-Resourced Contexts
Joseph R. Coffey and Alejandrina Cristia |
| 10:20–10:30 | Developing Bilingual English-Setswana Datasets for Space Domain
Tebatso G. Moape, Sunday Olusegun Ojo and Oludayo O. Olugbara |
| 10:30–11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00–11:25 | Compiling a List of Frequently Used Setswana Words for Developing Readability Measures
Johannes Sibeko |
| 11:25–11:50 | A Qualitative Inquiry into the South African Language Identifier’s Performance on YouTube Comments.
Nkazimlo N. Ngcungca, Johannes Sibeko and Sharon Rudman |
| 11:50–12:15 | The First Universal Dependency Treebank for Tswana: Tswana-Popapolelo
Tanja Gaustad, Ansu Berg, Rigardt Pretorius and Roald Eiselen |
| 12:15–12:40 | Adapting Nine Traditional Text Readability Measures into Sesotho
Johannes Sibeko and Menno van Zaanen |
| 12:40–13:05 | Bootstrapping Syntactic Resources from isiZulu to Siswati
Laurette Marais, Laurette Pretorius and Lionel Clive Posthumus |
| 13:05–14:20 | Lunch break |
| 14:20–14:45 | Early Child Language Resources and Corpora Developed in Nine African Languages by the SADiLaR Child Language Development Node
Michelle J. White, Frenette Southwood and Sefela Londiwe Yalala |
| 14:45–15:10 | Morphological Synthesizer for Ge’ez Language: Addressing Morphological Complexity and Resource Limitations
Gebrearegawi Gebremariam Gidey, Hailay Kidu Teklehaymanot and Gebregewergs Mezgebe Atsbha |
| 15:10–15:35 | EthioMT: Parallel Corpus for Low-resource Ethiopian Languages
Atnafu Lambebo Tonja, Olga Kolesnikova, Alexander Gelbukh and Jugal Kalita |
| 15:35–16:00 | Resources for Annotating Hate Speech in Social Media Platforms Used in Ethiopia: A Novel Lexicon and Labelling Scheme
Nuhu Ibrahim, Felicity Mulford, Matt Lawrence and Riza Batista-Navarro |
| 16:00–16:30 | Coffee break |
| 16:30–16:55 | Low Resource Question Answering: An Amharic Benchmarking Dataset
Tilahun Abedissa Taffa, Ricardo Usbeck and Yaregal Assabie |
| 16:55–17:05 | The Annotators Agree to Not Agree on the Fine-grained Annotation of Hate-speech against Women in Algerian Dialect Comments
Imane Guellil, Yousra Houichi, Sara Chennoufi, Mohamed Boubred, Anfal Yousra Boucetta and Faical Azouaou |
| 17:05–17:30 | Advancing Language Diversity and Inclusion: Towards a Neural Network-based Spell Checker and Correction for Wolof
Thierno Ibrahima Cissé and Fatiha Sadat |
| 17:30–17:55 | Lateral Inversions, Word Form/Order, Unnamed Grammatical Entities and Ambiguities in the Constituency Parsing and Annotation of the Igala Syntax through the English Language
Mahmud Mohammed Momoh |
| 17:55–18:00 | Closing |
