Programme
Academic Symposium : Language and Technology in Wales 28/01/22
Simulaneous translation from Welsh to English will be available over Zoom.
Questions may be asked either in English or Welsh.
9.15 |
OPENING AND WELCOME |
9.30 |
Guest speaker Georg Rehm, DFKI: Developing an agenda and a roadmap for achieving full digital language equality in Europe by 2030 |
10.15 |
Dewi Bryn Jones, Bangor University: Pioneering Speech Recognition for Welsh |
10.45 |
Stephen Russell, Bangor University: Creating new synthetic voices for Welsh |
11.15 |
COFFEE BREAK |
11.30 |
Andreas Vlachidis, UCL: Developing a Welsh Natural Language Toolkit for GATE |
12.00 |
Gareth Watkins a Gruffudd Prys, Bangor University: An open Lexicon of Welsh wordforms |
12.30 |
Jon Morris, Cardiff University Welsh automatic text summarisation |
1.00 |
LUNCH BREAK |
1.30 |
Preben Vangberg a William J. Teahan, Prifysgol Bangor. Using a combination of STT-models and compression-models to identify spoken language |
2.00 |
Matthew Russell, Bangor University: New developments in Welsh Machine Translation |
2.30 |
Delyth Prys, Bangor University: Collecting a large corpus of sentences as recording prompts for Common Voice |
3.00 |
Round Table: Wales Language Technologies Network |
3.30 |
CLOSE |