--- title: "Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009" description: "Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009 — accepted papers: 2 papers in the Elamur Research library (Athens…" canonical: "https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/2009/" --- [Elamur Research](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/2009/) [home](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [venues](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/) / [Workshop on Language Technologies for…](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/) / 2009 # Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009 — accepted papers Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages 2009 is the 2009 edition of the Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, held in Athens, Greece, March 2009 (publisher: Association for Computational Linguistics). OpenAlex lists 16 papers of it; our library holds 2 with our summaries. Below: the most cited papers, every accepted paper, and ours with their topics, authors and institutions. 📍 Athens, [Greece](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/countries/greece/) · 🗓 March 2009 [**16** papers in the proceedings](#all) · [**2** works in our library](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/2009/#works) · [**47** citations of these works](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/2009/#works) ## All accepted papers (16) The most cited first; 2 with our summary link to their page here, the others to the original. 1. **[A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0704/)**Raphael Finkel, Odetunji Ajadi Odejobi 2. **[A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0713/)**Piotr Bański, Beata Wójtowicz 3. **[An Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS) ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0716/)**Steven Moran 4. **[Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0708/)**Tunde Adegbola 5. **[Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0701/)**Jaco Badenhorst, Charl van Heerden, Marelie Davel et al. 6. **[Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral Method](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anberbir-2009-development-amharic-text-speech-system/)**Tadesse Anberbir, Tomio Takara*our summary* 7. **[Exploiting Cross-Linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0714/)**Laurette Pretorius, Sonja Bosch 8. **[Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0703/)**Christian Chiarcos, Ines Fiedler, Mira Grubic et al. 9. **[Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0709/)**Tebogo Gumede, Madelaine Plauché 10. **[Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0711/)**Dorothee Beermann, Pavel Mihaylov 11. **[Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gamback-2009-methods-amharic-part-speech-tagging/)**Björn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw et al.*our summary* 12. **[Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0706/)**Gertrud Faaß, Ulrich Heid, Elsabé Taljard et al. 13. **[Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0710/)**Rigardt Pretorius, Ansu Berg, Laurette Pretorius et al. 14. **[The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0702/)**Guy De Pauw, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Gilles-Maurice de Schryver 15. **[Towards an Electronic Dictionary of Tamajaq Language in Niger ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0712/)**Chantal Enguehard, Issouf Modi 16. **[Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana ↗](https://aclanthology.org/W09-0705/)**Hendrik Johannes Groenewald ## Papers with our summary in our library (2) The most cited first (OpenAlex citations plus our library's). 1. **[Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/gamback-2009-methods-amharic-part-speech-tagging/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/)**Björn Gambäck, Fredrik Olsson, Atelach Alemu Argaw, et al.*2009 · 38 citations* 2. **[Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral Method](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/papers/anberbir-2009-development-amharic-text-speech-system/) [Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/)**Tadesse Anberbir, Tomio Takara*2009 · 9 citations* ## Top topics Topics of its works in our library, with the number of works on each. [Semitic languages (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/semitic-languages/) · [Part-of-speech tagging (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/part-of-speech-tagging/) · [Speech & spoken language (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/topics/speech/) ## Fields [Arts and Humanities (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/arts-and-humanities/) · [Computer Science (2)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/computer-science/) · [Psychology (1)](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/shelves/psychology/) ## Top authors Authors with a page who published here most often: their works here, and the citations of those works. [🧑‍🔬**Atelach Alemu Argaw**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/atelach-alemu-argaw/) · [🧑‍🔬**Bjorn Gamback**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/bjorn-gamback/) · [🧑‍🔬**Fredrik Olsson**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/fredrik-olsson/) · [🧑‍🔬**Lars Asker**1 work here · 38 citations](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/authors/lars-asker/) ## Top institutions Institutions on the bylines of its works here, by the number of works. [🎓**Stockholm University** Stockholm · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/stockholm-university/) · [🤝**Swedish Institute of Computer Science** Kista · Sweden 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/ngos/swedish-institute-of-computer-science/) · [🎓**Addis Ababa University** Addis Ababa · Ethiopia 1 work here](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/universities/addis-ababa-university/) Place and dates from the event's site or the ACL Anthology; works and citations from OpenAlex and our library. - [↑ back to Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages](https://md.research.elamur.ai/free/en/venues/workshop-on-language-technologies-for-african-languages/)