1. ADD and SNLP in Thailand Virach Sornlertlamvanich Thai Computational Linguistics Lab. (TCL), NICT Asia Research Center, Thailand virach@tcllab.org

2. Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD) Objective  Build experts in NLP  Build a human network of NLP expert for sharing the experience, expertise, and collaboration in studying and applying NLP  Support the development of language resources for studying and evaluating the technology  Support the development of standards for language resource development  Support the research and development of NLP common utilities  Support the implementation of the existing NLP utilities

3. Asian Applied Natural Language Processing for Linguistics Diversity and Language Resource Development (ADD) Organizer and Supporter  NICT Asia Research Center  Asian Language Resources Network Project (ALRN)  National Electronics Computer and Technology Center (NECTEC)  Sirindhorn International Institute of Technology (SIIT)  Asia-Pacific Association for Machine Translation (AAMT)  Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing (AFNLP)  PAN Localization Project, CRULP

4. 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 Analysis)  March 6-14, 2007 Thammasart University, Bangkok, Thailand ADD-3: Advanced NLP (Special Topic on Image, Speech and Text Processing)  February 25-Mar 3, 2008

5. The Past ADD’s ADD-1 27 from 34 applications of 12 countries  Bhutan1  Cambodia2  Indonesia2  Lao3  Mongolia1  Myanmar3  Nepal3  Pakistan3  Sri Lanka1  Thailandopen  US1  Vietnam7 ADD-2 36 from 42 applications of 13 countries  Bangladesh2  Bhutan1  Cambodia2  India1  Indonesia3  Lao5 (7)  Mongolia1  Myanmar1 (3)  Nepal3 (5)  Pakistan1  Philippines1  Thailand4  Vietnam11

6. http://www.tcllab.org/add

7. SNLP The 7 th SNLP December 12-15, 2008 Peninsula Hotel, Pattaya Hosted by KU and NECTEC The 8 th SNLP and PACLING December 2010 Hosted by Thurakij Bhadit Univ and NECTEC