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If you would like to present a poster or an initiative, or if you work with language development in an academic setting or otherwise, please contact the organizers <ref> asiimwea94ATgmail.com</ref> <ref>medadiesATgmail.com</ref> 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. | If you would like to present a poster or an initiative, or if you work with language development in an academic setting or otherwise, please contact the organizers <ref> asiimwea94ATgmail.com</ref> <ref>medadiesATgmail.com</ref> 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. | ||
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Revision as of 07:11, 3 April 2019
' We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language "
Where: Makerere University, 18 – 22 November 2019
'The following events 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 an initiative, or if you work with language development in an academic setting or otherwise, please contact the organizers [1] [2] 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:
especially for lesser-resourced languages.
'Workshops and Theme talks
Theme 1
Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier
Professor Besacier i s a Computer Scientist at the University of Grenoble, France, and Co-chairand ISCA liaison representative of the Special Interest Group for Under-resourced Languages at ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Theme 2
Computational language documentation: an introduction
Keynote speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier
Theme 1 and 2 are accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software.
Theme 3
Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the creation of African language resources.
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dorothee Beermann
Professor Beermann is a Linguist at the University of Science and Technology, Norway.She is one of the Co-founders of Polytext and a contributor to SIGUL at ELRA (European Language Resources Association).
Theme 3 is accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on the creation of annotated text corpora.
Panel discussion
How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?
Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers