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''We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language"
Where: Makerere University, 18 – 22 November 2019
'The following event are planned:
Contents
Ugandan Language Fair
The fair will host a poster session and small events presenting the work of invited communities and individuals.
Call for participation
If you would like to present a poster or present an initiative, or work with language development in an academic setting or otherwise, please contact the organizers at Makerere University. We would love to hear from you. If you are a developer of language technology working in Uganda, or on Ugandan languages, please contact us. We would like to promote your work.
Signed up initiatives:
Short text describing the project xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Short text describing the company. xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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Workshops and Theme talks
Theme 1
Laurent Besacier Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction with hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software
Theme 2
Laurent Besacier Computational language documentation: an introduction
Theme 3
Dorothee Beermann Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the use of linguistic services and online databases in the creation of African language resources.
Panel discussion
How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?
Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers