Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages AfLaT 2009

Conference Program
Collecting and Evaluating Speech Recognition Corpora for Nine Southern Bantu Languages
The SAWA Corpus: A Parallel Corpus English - Swahili
Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools
A Computational Approach to Yorùbá Morphology
Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana
Part-of-Speech Tagging of Northern Sotho: Disambiguating Polysemous Function Words
Development of an Amharic Text-to-Speech System Using Cepstral Method
Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages
Initial Fieldwork for LWAZI: A Telephone-Based Spoken Dialog System for Rural South Africa
Setswana Tokenisation and Computational Verb Morphology: Facing the Challenge of a Disjunctive Orthography
Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser--Documented Languages
Towards an Electronic Dictionary of Tamajaq Language in Niger
A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method
Exploiting Cross-Linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology
Methods for Amharic Part-of-Speech Tagging
An Ontology for Accessing Transcription Systems (OATS)