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Publications/Presentations 2006

Publications 2006

  • De Wet, F, Louw, PH & Niesler, TR. Nguni and Sotho varieties of South African English - distant cousins or twins? Proceedings of ISCA Research and Tutorial Workshop on Multi-Lingual Speech Processing, Stellenbosch, South Africa, (2006). MULTILING2006

  • De Wet, F & T Niesler & P Louw. The design collection and annotation of speech databases in South Africa. Invited paper. Proceedings of annual conference of the Pattern Recognition Society of South Africa (PRASA), Parys, Free State. Nov 2006.

  • Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, HS. Lexique pove-français/français-pove, Mickala Manfoumbi: Seconde note de lecture. Lexikos 16. Accepted for publication. 2006.

  • Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, HS. Alphabet et Ecriture: Approche historique et cas des langues gabonaises. Ecriture et standardisation des langues gabonaises, edited by J. Hubert & PA Mavoungou. GRSDG Publications. In Press. 2006.

  • Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, HS. Unités-langues et standardisation des langues gabonaises. Ecriture et standardisation des langues gabonaises, edited by J. Hubert & PA Mavoungou. GRSDG Publications. In Press. 2006.

  • Ndinga-Koumba-Binza, HS. English in French-speaking African countries: The Case of Gabon. The Study and Use of English in Africa: A Review, edited by A.E. Arua, M.M. Bagwasi, T. Sebina and B. Seboni. Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006.

  • Niesler, TR. Language-dependent state clustering for multilingual speech recognition in Afrikaans, South African English, Xhosa and Zulu , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING-2006), 9-11 April, Stellenbosch, South Africa. MULTILING2006

  • Niesler, TR & Willett, D. Language identification and multilingual speech recognition using discriminatively trained acoustic models , ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop (ITRW) on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing (MULTILING-2006), 9-11 April, Stellenbosch, South Africa. MULTILING2006

  • Roux, JC. Unresolved issues in the description of click articulations in Xhosa and Zulu. Accepted for publication in *Language Matters. (Special Issue) 2006.

  • Roux, JC and Bosch, SE. Language resources and tools in Southern Africa. LREC 2006 Workshop Proceedings. WO3: Networking the development of language resources for African languages. Genoa, Italy, May 2006. 11-16. 2006.

  • Roux, JC & Niesler, TR. Final Report on the project: Automated multilingual access to financial services for the Department of Science and Technology. 91 pp. 2006.

Presentations 2006

  • De Wet, F and Van der Walt, C. Oral proficiency assessment: the use of speech recognition systems. The Joint Annual Linguistics Conference, Durban, July 2006.

  • De Wet, F and Van der Walt, C. Oral proficiency assessment: the use of speech recognition systems. presented at, CTL Autumn Teaching Academy, Stellenbosch, May 2006.

  • Louw, PH and De Wet, F. Distinguishing between Nguni and Sotho varieties of South African English: A perceptual experiment. The Joint Annual Linguistics Conference, Durban, July 2006.

  • Ndinga-Koumba Binza, HS. Prospecting Civili Data for a Vowel-Duration Study. Interim Conference of the African Language Assocation of Southern Africa. University of Cape Town, South Africa: 3-5 July 2006.

  • Roux, JC. International Panel Discussion on Electronic Dictionaries. 11th International Conference on Lexicography of AFRILEX, Thohoyandou, July 2006.

  • Roux, JC. Human Language Technologies and the standardisation of lexical databases. 11th International Conference on Lexicography of AFRILEX, Thohoyandou, July 2006.

  • Roux, JC. Networking language resources in Africa – Future plans and proposals. Termtrain Conference/Workshop of UNESCO, Standards South Africa (StanSA) and the Dept of Arts & Culture, Pretoria, May 2006.

  • Roux, JC. Developing multilingual speech applications in the African context. South African - French Collaboration in ICT R&D Workshop. Department of Science and Technology. Somerset West, March 2006.

  • Roux, JC. Terminology applications and Human Language Technologies. Termtrain Conference/Workshop of UNESCO, Standards South Africa (StanSA) and the Dept of Arts & Culture, Pretoria, May 2006.

General 2006

  • Organising and hosting the first workshop in Africa of the International Speech Communication Association`s (ISCA) Tutorial and Research Workshop on Multilingual Speech and Language Processing, Stellenbosch, 9-11 April 2006. Organising committee of MULTILING 2006: JC Roux (Chair), F de Wet, P Louw, T Niesler & J du Preez. http://www.unistel.co.za/multiling2006

  • Roux, JC & S. Bosch (UNISA) co-organisers of pre-conference workshop on Networking the development of resources for African languages, at the 5th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2006), 21-28 May, 2006. Genoa, Italy.
    http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2006/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=6

   
         
   


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