Day 1 (Monday, 19 March 2007)
Presenter: Christiane Fellbaum
07:30 - 08:30 Registration and coffee
08:30 - 09:30 Welcome and introductions
09:30 - 10:30 Introduction to WordNet: Motivation and design. Synonymy and polysemy.
10:00 - 10:30 Tea break
10:30 - 12:30 WordNet lexicography, Synsets, semantic relations among nouns: synonymy, antonymy, hyponymy, meronymy; principles/rules and tests for classification
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 15:00 Semantic relations continued. Lexical gaps, artificial nodes
15:00 - 15:30 Tea break
This gathering will bring together leading researchers and practitioners from across Africa to develop a joint research agenda.
The main outcome of that meeting is to start a process of reinforcing a network of partners to conduct applied research on l10n issues in Africa.
The main objectives of the workshop are:
1. build a network of partners to conduct applied research on l10n issues in Africa;
2. design a research agenda for l10n in Africa that may include policy analysis and advice, standardization efforts, technical and practical concerns, etc.;
3. draft a proposal to IDRC for support of the network and research agenda;
Presented by Paa Kwesi Imbeah, Suuch Solutions, Ghana/University of Cambridge, UK