Natural Language Processing is an essential application of computer science which enhances communication in our day-to-day life. Especially, having two rich national languages, we Sri Lankan research community should engage in more research and development work related to NLP. The Symposium on Natural Language Processing, SNLP, aims to foster the NLP based research work in Sri Lanka. The symposium will facilitate NLP researches and language enthusiasts, by providing a knowledge-rich environment where participants can share and discuss their research and ideas.
SNLP2019 will be held on 22nd & 23rd March 2019 at University of Moratuwa. The symposium consists of key-note speeches by international experts in NLP, presentations from participants and open discussions. We invite all NLP researches and language enthusiasts to share ongoing and completed research -
Share new research ideas - Learn recent research and developments in NLP on national languages of Sri Lanka.
Call for Presentations
Topics focusing on the symposium include, but not limited to, the following;
- Machine Translation
- Corpus Linguistics
- Speech and Language Processing
- Computational Linguistics
- Information Retrieval
- Grammar Engineering
- Language/Linguistic resources
- Language application development
Send your topic and a brief summary on or before 28th February 2019 to contact@issale.lk
Keynote Speakers
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| Prof. Dr. Stefan Evert Chair of Computational Corpus Linguistics Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany |
Dr. Hassan Sajjad Research scientist Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar |
Schedule
| Date | Time | Event | Resource person/s |
| 22 March 2019 (Friday) | Whole day | Symposium on National Languages Processing | Project presentations - ISSALE participants Paper presentations - researchers from Sri Lanka Keynote sessions |
| 22 March 2019 (Friday) | 6.00p.m. - 10.00p.m. | The closing ceremony of the ISSALE 2019 SNLP Fellowship dinner | All the resource people ISSALE participants Researchers around Sri Lanka Invitees |
| 23 March 2019 (Saturday) | Whole day | Symposium on National Languages Processing |
Keynote sessions, |