Ugandan Languages: Vitality, Resources and Capacity Building

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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

18 – 22 November 2019

Opening Day (I)

Welcoming address: by the hosts at Makerere University

Two Key note speakers

Ugandan Language Fair The week is dedicated to Ugandan languages. It starts with a plenary session which hosts a poster session and small events inviting communities and individuals to present their work. We invite posters and stands presenting activities : Literary [Logo here]

creation of language resources Mediadi's company, we

preservation of oral tradition culture and language

language technologies our spell checker

Workshopes 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.  Dorothee Beermann

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?

Panel discussion with community members initiative representatives , companies and developers