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Revision as of 09:11, 24 April 2019

' We celebrate 2019 as the International Year of Indigenous Language "

Where: Makerere University, 18 – 22 November 2019

'The following events are planned:

Ugandan Language Fair

The fair will host a poster session and small events presenting the work of invited communities and individuals.

Opening Speeches

Judge Daniel David Ntanda Nsereko

Title tba

Professor Muranga

Title tba

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:

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.

Polytext is a small Norwegian software company. It produces linguistic tools and resources especially for lesser-resourced languages.

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Workshops and Theme talks

Theme 1

Speech technologies for low resource languages: an introduction

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Laurent Besacier

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 (SIGUL) 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 tutorials on speech data collection and annotation softwares.

Theme 3

Corpus building for less-resourced languages: the creation of African language resources.

Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dorothee Beermann

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).

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

1. ↑ asiimwea94ATgmail.com
2. ↑ medadiesATgmail.com