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(This was forwarded to me by Nicholas Ostler <nostler@chibcha.demon.co.uk> of Linguacubun Ltd. I have reformatted it slightly...mark)
Dear minority language technologist
The start of the new academic year sees the start of the SALTMIL Special Interest Group within ESCA (now ISCA). This group (for "Speech and Language Technology for Minority Languages") has now been approved, and can begin activities, as follows.
1) Email discussion list
The first activity is an email discussion list. As a preliminary measure, a new list has been created at the US website www.onelist.com To subscribe to the SALTMIL discussion group, you can do one of two things:
a) Point your web browser to http://www.onelist.com/community/saltmil and follow the link to subscribe; or
b) Send a blank email to saltmil-subscribe@onelist.com
A message with further details will be automatically sent to you.
This list is free, but carries commercial advertising in a brief section at the end of each message. However, until we can migrate to a non-commercial server this will be adequate. The discussions can be followed through email, and also through a Web browser at the Onelist site.
Please don't delay in subscribing to the list, so we can begin our discussions!
2) SALTMIL web page
The provisional SALTMIL website is currently at http://www.cstr.ed.ac.uk/SALTMIL
Please send any material you would like to add to the web pages to: briony@cstr.ed.ac.uk
This could include details of your work, or a link to your web pages.
3) Proposal for a one-day workshop
A one-day workshop will be proposed to the organisers of the second LREC conference in Athens. If accepted, this will be similar to the first one-day workshop at the first LREC in Granada, May 1998.
We hope very much that you will join in the discussions and share your knowledge and experience with others who are also working in the field of speech and language technology for minority languages.
Yours
Briony Williams, University of Edinburgh, UK
Climent Nadeu, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Donncha 'Crinn , Linguistics Institute of Ireland, Ireland
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