Difference between revisions of "Ugandan Languages: Vitality, Resources and Capacity Building"
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| − | + | <span style="color: brown; font-size:140%">Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools and resource for</span> | |
| − | + | '<span style="color: brown; font-size:140%">lesser- resources languages.</span> [[File:Polytext Final.png| right| 300px |linguistic technology]] | |
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| − | + | <span style="font-size:120%"> Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction</span> | |
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| − | + | <span style="font-size:120%">Computational language documentation: an introduction</span> | |
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| + | Theme 1 and 2 are accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software | ||
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| − | + | <span style="font-size:120%">Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the creation of African language resources.</span> | |
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| − | + | Keynote Speaker: Dorothee Beermann | |
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| − | ''How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?'' | + | <span style="font-size:120%">'' '''How do we strengthen Uganda’s local languages?''' ''</span> |
Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers | Participants community members, initiative representatives, companies and developers | ||
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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
Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools and resource for
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