ALRC Report Virach Sornlertlamvanich Chair of ALRC, AFNLP

Major Role ALR Workshop  Take initiative in setting up ALR Workshop in every other year. This is to consider as an attaching workshop to a major conference such as IJCNLP. It involves setting up the workshop and program chairs. The process should start at the latest as soon as the call for workshop proposal has been announced, so that the workshop and program chairs can be announced at the appropriate time. The Chair must interact with the workshop chair to ensure that the workshop preparations are proceeding smoothly. LR catalogue  Throughout the year, monitor and maintain the LR catalogue ( up to the date.

ALR Workshop The 7 th ALR Workshop  Convergent workshop between NLP and Speech communities Paper  Submission: 37 papers  Acceptance: 21 regular presentations, 5 short presentations Panel session  ALR-FLaReNet Framework of collaboration between ALR, FLaReNet, and PAN Data and tool sharing Standard movement NLP HRD Copyright and IP handling Demo session

ADD School and Workshop ( ADD-1: Introduction to NLP  August 21–September 1, 2006  SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand ADD-2: Advanced NLP (Special Topic on Morpho-Syntactic Anaysis)  March 6-14, 2007  Thammasart University, Bangkok, Thailand ADD-3: Advanced NLP (Special Topic on Image and Speech processing)  February 25–March 1, 2008  SIIT, Bangkok, Thailand ADD-4: Language Resource Technology (Special Topic on Morpho- Syntactic Analysis, Annotation, Tools, and Implementation  February 23-27, 2009  NECTEC Academy, Bangkok, Thailand

ADD School and Workshop ( ADD-1ADD-2ADD-3ADD-4total Bangladesh233 (5)8 (10) Bhutan113 (4)38 (9) Cambodia222 India11 Indonesia Lao35 (7)3112 (14) Mongolia11226 Myanmar31 (3)4513 (15) Nepal33 (5)2 (3) 10 (14) Pakistan3126 Philippines1113 Sri Lanka123 Thailand Vietnam total3036 (42)55 (57)49 (52)170 (181) () : total applications

Additional Activities ALR Summit  Language resource development and sharing  March 20-21, 2009, Phuket, Thailand  23 participants from 14 countries Participation  FLaReNET Invitation to participate in ALR Workshop  CyberLing Whitepaper of Linguistics Resource and Tools Sharing is expected July workshop in Berkeley, CA