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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 [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:
Short text describing the project
'especially for lesser- resourced languages.
Workshops and Theme talks
Theme 1
Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction
Keynote Speaker: Laurent Besacier
Theme 2
Computational language documentation: an introduction
Keynote speaker: 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: Dorothee Beermann
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