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We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language
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''We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language"
  
 
To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a  community week with events, lectures and workshops
 
To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a  community week with events, lectures and workshops
  
18 – 22 November 2019
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  '''Where:  Makerere University'''
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  '''When :  18 – 22 November 201'''
  
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====Selected Activities====
  
Opening Day (I)
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Opening Day  
  
Welcoming address:    by the hosts at Makerere University  
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Welcoming address:    By the hosts at Makerere University  
  
Two Key note speakers     
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Key note speakers     
  
Ugandan Language Fair  
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====Ugandan Language Fair====
The week is dedicated to Ugandan languages. It starts with a plenary session which hosts a poster session and small events inviting communities and individuals to present their work.
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The fair will host a poster session and small events presenting the work of invited communities and individuals.
We invite posters and stands presenting activities :
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Literary    [Logo here]
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creation of language resources  Mediadi's company, we
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=====Call for participation=====
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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.
  
preservation of oral tradition
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Literary    [Logos  here]
culture and language
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language technologies our spell checker
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====Workshops and Theme talks====
  
  
Workshopes and theme talks
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=====Theme 1=====
 
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Theme 1  
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Laurent Besacier
 
Laurent Besacier
 
Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction
 
Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction
  (hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software)
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hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software
  
Theme 2  
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=====Theme 2 =====
 
Laurent Besacier
 
Laurent Besacier
: Computational language documentation: an introduction
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Computational language documentation: an introduction
  
Theme 3  
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=====Theme 3=====
 
Dorothee Beermann  
 
Dorothee Beermann  
Corpus building for less-resourced language.  Dorothee Beermann
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Corpus building for less-resourced language.   
 
The use of linguistic services and online databases in the creation of African language resources.  
 
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?
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====Panel discussion====
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''How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?''
  
Panel discussion with community members initiative representatives , companies and developers
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Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers

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We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language"

To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a community week with events, lectures and workshops

  Where:  Makerere University
  When :  18 – 22 November 201

Selected Activities

Opening Day

Welcoming address: By the hosts at Makerere University

Key note speakers

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.

Literary [Logos here]

Workshops and Theme talks

Theme 1

Laurent Besacier Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction 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 language. 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