Short Report on the CMLD (Computational Methods for Endangered Languages) conference

Joseph J Mariani (1)

1 LISN - Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique

I participated in the CMLD (Computational Methods for Endangered Languages) conference last week at ENS in Paris. Laurent Besacier was also attending. Here is a short report.-About fifty participants, several were also present at the workshop on Uralic languages in Saint Petersburg a year ago-Proposal to use facial recognition for metadata on speakers' names (Niko Partanen, one of the organizers).-Joachim Nivre presented the international effort on "Universal Dependencies (Treebanks)". Already 60 languages. I ask him what he plans to do for the remaining 6840... He says it's a funding problem. He agrees that they should be treated by family of languages to save money.-Presentation by Jargal Badagarov (Mongolia:

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Joseph J Mariani. Short Report on the CMLD (Computational Methods for Endangered Languages) conference. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Sciences du Numérique. 2018. ⟨hal-04413168⟩