Institute for Digital Research & Education, African Studies Center and Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Program present the Virtual Tigrinya Language Digital Initiatives Symposium.

Event Schedule

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Sponsors and Organizing Committee

• UCLA-IDRE
• UCLA-ASC
• Stanford Language Center’s African and Middle Eastern Program.
• Abraham Adhanom, PhD, PMP, UCLA IDRE
• Biniam Gebremichael, PhD, SeReT Foundation
• Issayas Tesfamariam, Stanford University, Hoover Institution
• Yemane Russom, Founder and Developer, Geezsoft and Phonetic Systems

Tracks

• Tigrinya Software Research and Development

  • Development of Tigrinya Software and Apps - NLP research and implementation - Adopting Open Source Software in Tigrinya
  • Data Acquisition - data mining and processing - data quality and quantity acquisition...
  • Demo and code examples for deep learning neural models, software ... (Tigrinya Hackathon)

• Tigrinya Linguistics and Computational Linguistics

  • Tigrinya Corpus building - Orthography, Morphology and Grammar analysis - Tigrinya Dialects ...
  • Tigrinya Vocabulary for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM).

Contact

• Questions related to the symposium can be submitted online here