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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