LREC 2012

A number of developers associated with Apertium are attending LREC 2012 (eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation), the week of May 20th in Istanbul. Many of us are presenting papers.

Apertium-related papers being presented

Title	Authors	Attending	Location	Date/time	Mode
"A morphological transducer for Kyrgyz"	JNW, Mirlan, Fran	JNW, Fran, ??			poster
"A prototype machine translation system for Tatar and Bashkir based on Free/Open-Source components"	Fran, JNW, Ilnar, Rustam	Fran, JNW	Room 6	2012-05-21 (Monday) 14:50-15:10	talk
""	Flammie Fran	Fran, Flammie			talk
"Free/open-source shallow-transfer based machine translation for Spanish and Aragonese"	JuanPablo Jimregan Fran	Fran			} Others planning on attending: Gianluca Apertium Turkic Apertium developers working on Turkic languages have planned to hold at least one meeting during LREC to discuss the following issues, among others: How to deal with semi-recursive structures, such as morphemes that attatch to subst and derive subst,, e.g. <loc><attr> and <px> How to deal with morphemes which change case of first letter when suffix is added, How to deal with phonological processes like vowel harmony on numerals and abbreviations, How to deal with derivations which are too productive to ignore -LIK/-LI etc.