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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
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.
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