C-LARA

Innovative approaches to speech and language technologies for Oceania, the world’s most linguistically diverse region

Program

Abstracts are posted here.

Thursday, July 25 (all times, time in Adelaide (UTC +9:30))

9:30 – 10:00

Registration + welcome coffee

10:00 – 10:15

Introduction
Christèle Maizonniaux, Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia

10:15 – 11:15

Keynote
Steven Bird, Charles Darwin University, Australia
Designing language technologies with indigenous speech communities

11:15 – 11:40

Nick Thieberger, University of Melbourne and PARADISEC, Australia
Documenting Pacific languages, methods for longterm access to language records

11:40 – 12:05

TBA
TBA

12:05 – 13:55

**Lunch (catered for registered on-site participants) **

13:55 – 14:20

Jacques Vernaudon, University of French Polynesia (Eastco, MSH-P)
The online dictionary of the Tahitian Academy and its functionalities

14:20 – 14:45

Vanessa Raffin, E-Reo, French Polynesia
Empowering Language Revitalization in Oceania — Make your own language apps!

14:45 – 15:15

Coffee break

15:15 – 17:00

Hands-on session
Manny Rayner, University of South Australia
C-LARA 1: AI-powered construction of pedagogical multimodal texts

17:00 – 17:25

Jocelyn Aznar, Universität Bern, Switzerland (chercheur associé) and CREDO, Marseille, France (membre associé)
Let’s not be framed by dictionaries! Sharing lexical elicitations to improve lexicographic documentation, examples from the Nisvai-Bislama lexical documentation, Vanuatu

Friday, July 26 (all times, time in Adelaide (UTC +9:30))

9:00 – 9:30

Registration + Welcome coffee

9:30 – 10:30

Keynote
Catherine I. Watson, Justine C.T. Hui, Brooke Ross, Isabella Shields, and Peter J. Keegan, University of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand
The development of MPAi: a tool to learn the pronunciation of Māori vowels

10:30 – 10:55

Fabrice Wacalie, University of New Caledonia, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire de Recherche en Éducation, LIRE (EA 7418)
Learning Kanak languages in the digital age

10:55 – 11:20

Guillaume Wattelez, Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie, LIRE, New Caledonia
Fabrice Wacalie, Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie, LIRE, New Caledonia
Pauline Welby, Aix Marseille Université, CNRS, Laboratoire Parole et Langage, France and Université de la Nouvelle Calédonie, LIRE
LaPasserelle.nc: a gateway to the pronunciation of the Kanak languages of New Caledonia

11:20 – 11:45

Anne Laure-Dotte and Stéphanie Geneix-Rabault
Université de la Nouvelle-Calédonie, Eralo, New Caledonia
C-LARA: disseminating resources for Iaai, an under-documented Oceanic language

11:45 – 13:00

Lunch (catered for registered on-site participants)

13:00 – 14:00

Flinders museum guided visit (for registered on-site participants)

14:00 – 15:30

Hands-on session
Manny Rayner, University of South Australia
C-LARA 2: Making illustrated multimodal texts for small languages

15:30 – 16:00

Coffee break

16:00 – 16:25

Carmel O’Shanessy, Australian National University
Vanessa Davis, Tangentyere Research Hub, Australian National University
Jessie Bartlett, Alice Nelson, Yuendumu Bilingual Development Resource Unit
The Little Kids’ Word List: A fair vocabulary assessment tool for young Indigenous multilingual children’s home languages

16:25 – 17:15

Round-table discussion

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