Pre-conference Workshops
In the practice-oriented Pre-Conference Workshop (19 Feb 2003) experts from around the globe will exhibit new research on terminology management. Experts from various universities and business organizations in South Africa will have an opportunity to present their research as well as the challenges they are faced with in terms of terminology, information and knowledge management. It is meant as a practice oriented event in which organizations, departments, companies, universities, etc. find a platform to introduce, explain and show their latest research results and/or products.
Pre-Conference Workshops: Programme
| 19 February 2003 | |
| Chairperson: Dr N Mgijima, Chief Director: National Language Service | |
| 09:00 – 09:15 | Welcome and
Opening Address: Mrs BS Mabandla (Deputy Minister: Department of Science and Technology) |
| 09:15 – 10:00 | Developing Human
Language Technologies in South Africa:
Challenges and Proposals Prof. JC Roux (Research Unit for Experimental Phonology, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa) |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | TISSA (Telephone
Interpreting Service for SA) Dr A-M Beukes (National Language Service, Department of Arts and Culture) |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tea break |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Computational
Morphological Analysis as an Aid for Term
Extraction Prof. Sonja Bosch, Prof. L Pretorius and Ms Linda van Huyssteen (University of South Africa) |
| 11:30 –12:00 | Multilingual
Technology and Technology Transfer Dr Jennifer DeCamp (MITRE Corporation and American University) |
| 12:00 –12:30 | Web Services in
Language Technology and Terminology
Management Dr Uwe Quasthoff and Dr Christian Wolff (University of Leipzig) |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
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| 13:30-14:00 | Spellchecker for
Afrikaans, based on Morphological
Analysis Dr Gerhard van Huyssteen (Potchefstroom University) and Menno van Zaanen (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands) |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Introducing
TshwaneLex – A New Computer Program for
the Compilation of Dictionaries Mr David Joffe, Mr Gilles-Maurice de Schryver and Prof. DJ Prinsloo (Department of African Languages, University of Pretoria) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Special
Multiobjective and Multilingual Knowledge of
Electronic Encyclopedia Prof. RK Potapova (Department of Applied and Experimental Linguistics, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia) and V V Potapov (Department of Philology, Moscow State Lomonosov University, Russia) |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Tea break |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Distributed
Corporate Language Management: Modern
Technologies in Client/Server Environments Ms Claudia Blaschke (TRADOS, Germany) |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Case Studies on
Term Entry and Glossary Distribution Mr Ewald Gehrmann (STAR Group, Germany) |
| Social Programme: Cocktail Party at 19:00. Dress: Smart-Casual | |
