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

  Where:  Makerere University
  When :  18 – 22 November 201

Selected Activities

Opening Day

Welcoming address: By the hosts at Makerere University

Key note speakers

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