First workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)
Invitation to participate
The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) will be
hosting a virtual workshop (originally expected to be held at the LREC 2020
conference in Marseille, France) in the field of African Indigenous Language
Resources. You are hereby invited to attend the first workshop on Resources for
African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) that will be held virtually on 16 May 2020
from 9:00 to 13:00 SAST. Participation in this virtual workshop is free. Please
register on EventBrite: https://bit.ly/1stRAIL. Details on how to join the ;
workshop will be sent out to registered participants.
The workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in
showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field of African indigenous
languages. It will provide an overview of the current state-of-the-art of
African indigenous language resources (both data and tools) and emphasizes
their availability. The workshop will allow for information sharing among
researchers interested in African indigenous languages as well as start
discussions on improving the quality and availability of the resources.
Many African indigenous languages currently have no or very limited resources
available and, additionally, they are often structurally different from more
well-resourced languages, requiring the development and use of specialized
techniques. By bringing together researchers from different fields (e.g.,
(computational) linguistics, sociolinguistics, language technology) to discuss
the development of language resources for African indigenous languages, we hope
to boost research in this field.
Topics include the following:
* Language collections (description and creation)
* Lexicography
* Syntactic analysis
* Computational linguistic tools
* Wordnets
Support
The first workshop on African indigenous languages is supported by
Videolectures.net.
Details
Free virtual workshop on African indigenous languages
16 May 9:00 to 13:00 SAST
Register through https://bit.ly/1stRAIL
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