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;