FYI. This conference will include topics related to African languages & ICT -
see topics in the announcement. Please contact the organizers (e-mail below)
for more information. (Also please pardon the cross-posting for those of you on
more than one Africa & ICT list.)

Don Osborn
Bisharat.net



Call for Papers

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON
PRESERVING AFRICAN LANGUAGES
NOVEMBER 4-7, 2004

UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE
AFRICAN LANGUAGE RESEARCH PROJECT
At
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND EASTERN SHORE, PRINCESS ANNE, MARYLAND
and
CLARION RESORT AND FOUNTAINEBLEAU HOTEL, OCEAN CITY, MARYLAND

Topics include: African languages and politics, African languages and terrorism,
annotation algorithms for selected African languages, automated language
processing, African languages and technology, cross-dialectal communication,
machine translation of African languages, language and telemedicine, African
language cartography/demographics, XML language management systems, teaching
technologies and recommended pedagogies, building lexicons, publishing
newspaper readers, automating emergency medical language, software development
for annotation and translation, the lingua franca of trade and economies, web
survey and analysis tools for African studies programs.

Deadline for one page abstracts is August 16, 2004.  Send short bio and abstract
in word format to Dr. Chester Hedgepeth at [log in to unmask]
Individuals whose abstracts are accepted must  register for full conference.
Registration materials online at one of the websites:
http://www.umes.edu/alrp  and
http://www.umes.edu/conted/conferences.html.  Graduate students are invited to
participate.  Must send support letter from dissertation advisor.

For additional information contact Dr. Chester Hedgepeth, Director, African
Language Research Project, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, Princess Anne,
MD.  at [log in to unmask]

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