Difference between revisions of "Ugandan Languages: Vitality, Resources and Capacity Building"
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| − | '<span style="color: green;font-size: | + | '<span style="color: green;font-size:120%">'' '''We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language''' "</span> |
<div style="font-size:140%;"> To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a community week with events, lectures and workshops</div> | <div style="font-size:140%;"> To honor the Indigenous languages of Uganda we organize a community week with events, lectures and workshops</div> | ||
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| − | '<span style="color: brown; font-size:140%">The following | + | '<span style="color: brown; font-size:140%">The following events are planned: </span> |
===='''Ugandan Language Fair'''==== | ===='''Ugandan Language Fair'''==== | ||
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=====Call for participation===== | =====Call for participation===== | ||
| − | If you would like to present a poster or | + | 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. |
Signed up initiatives: | Signed up initiatives: | ||
| − | [[File:Dorika.jpg|300px]] | + | [[File:Dorika.jpg|left|300px]]<span style="font-size:120%"> Dorika Publications was founded by the writer Waalabyeki Magoba. It is committed to producing quality Luganda literature to create a permanent yearning for reading in children and adults.</span> |
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| − | [[File:Polytext Final.png| left | 300px |linguistic technology]] <span style="font-size:120%">Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools and resources for</span> | + | |
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| + | [[File:Polytext Final.png| left | 300px |linguistic technology]] <span style="font-size:120%">Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools | ||
| + | and resources for especially for lesser- resourced languages.</span> | ||
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<span style="font-size:120%"> Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction</span> | <span style="font-size:120%"> Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction</span> | ||
| − | Keynote Speaker: Laurent Besacier | + | Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier |
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| + | [[File:Laurent besacier .jpg|left]] Professor Besacier i s a Computer Scientist at the University of Grenoble, France, and Co-chair | ||
| + | and ISCA liaison representative of the Special Interest Group for Under-resourced Languages at ELRA (European Language Resources Association). | ||
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<span style="font-size:120%">Computational language documentation: an introduction</span> | <span style="font-size:120%">Computational language documentation: an introduction</span> | ||
| − | Keynote speaker: Laurent Besacier | + | Keynote speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier |
| − | Theme 1 and 2 are accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on an ASR open source software | + | 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> | <span style="font-size:120%">Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the creation of African language resources.</span> | ||
| − | Keynote Speaker: Dorothee Beermann | + | Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dorothee Beermann |
| − | [[File:Dorothee beermann-2019.JPG|left |200x182px]] | + | [[File:Dorothee beermann-2019.JPG|left |200x182px]] 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). | ||
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| + | Theme 3 is accompanied by a Hands-on tutorial on the creation of annotated text corpora | ||
Revision as of 07:03, 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:
and resources for especially for lesser- resourced languages.
'
Workshops and Theme talks
Theme 1
Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier
and 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
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