Western Africa

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2010-08-05 08:33

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?
Justus Roux

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Natural Language Processing

Submitted by sobusola on Fri, 2010-01-29 12:34
Description: 

Current research is focussed on resources for corpus development

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Newsletter October 2009

Submitted by Guy on Mon, 2009-10-19 14:48

Dear AfLaT member,

we would like to draw your attention to some recent highlights in African Language Technology.

(1) Google announced the availability of their Swahili Machine Translation system
http://aflat.org/?q=node/346

(2) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the National Human Language Technology Network Day 2010
http://aflat.org/?q=node/345

(3) MURI Call for White Papers: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"
http://aflat.org/?q=node/347

Also several new publications and links have recently been added. We hope to see you soon at http://AfLaT.org!

with kind regards

the AfLaT team

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Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers

Submitted by Guy on Mon, 2009-10-19 14:14

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers, DUE Dec 11

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Call for White Papers

DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"

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Abibitumi Kasa: Afrikan (African) Language + Liberation Institutes

Submitted by Akyeame_Kwame on Tue, 2009-08-25 13:15




Abibitumi Kasa Classes | Abibitumi Kasa : An Afrikan Language Institute
Abibitumi Kasa Logo

http://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Learn Conversational Akan (Twi), Yoruba or Wolof Online In One Month! Classes Ongoing!

Online = Accessible to Afrikans worldwide
Engaging = Interactive with live voice and video
Easy = Setup is simple and quick often requiring little to no troubleshooting

http://www.abibitumikasa.com/classes.html
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

What: You are invited to join one month (8 class) sessions of Conversational Twi, Yoruba or Wolof

Who: All Afrikan people who are serious about being Afrikan

When: Next class session begins the week of September 14th, 2009. Classes ongoing, beginning every month! (Click here for schedule http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/calendar.php)

Monday AND Wednesday Conversational Twi 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

Tuesday AND Thursday Conversational Yoruba 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

AND

Saturday AND Sunday Conversational Wolof 6:00PM-8:00PM

Where: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

How: To access the online member classroom, you must register for the Abibitumi Kasa site at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

You'll need to do this if you don't have an account already.

If you already have an account at the site, login at this link: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/login.php

From there click on the link to member classroom on any page at the site at class time or visit the link to the member classroom here directly at http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

Learn to hook up your audio and/or webcam for class and more at: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/

How Much: 195 USD for eight (8) class Introductory Class; Contact us about cost of advanced individual tutorials http://www.abibitumikasa.com/contact.html

Why: Repatriation, Visit, Interacting with Family, and more. Let us know your reason for wanting to learn Afrikan languages via our Prospective Student Questionnaire http://www.abibitumikasa.com/nsemmisa.pdf

Four Simple Steps to SUCCESSFUL registration for class:

Have you registered for the class: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Have you submitted payment for the class: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/payment.html

Have you registered and logged into the forums: http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

Have you clicked on member classroom (where the classes are held): http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

View Class Requirements:
http://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/faq.php?faq=onlineclasses

Our other classes include:
(Click the class name for details)

Mwalimu Baruti Eureason Course Online

Mwalimu Baruti Afrikan Centered Sociology Course Online

Akinjide Bonotchi Mongomery's Introduction Medew Netcher Course Online

Professor Griff: Psychological Covert War on Hip-Hop Course Online

Akhu Yaw Kamau: Afrikan Mathematics Course Online

Ogechi Amadi's Holistic Child Development Course Online

Dr Runoko Rashidi: Around the World with Runoko Rashidi (Begins again winter 2009)

Ras Ariel: Repatriation Course 101

Baba Balogun Abeegunde: Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within

Dr. Kamau Kambon: Seminar: Food Health and You: Why Afrikans Die So Young Course Online (TBA)

Zhiizhii Prince: Kiswahili I Course Online (TBA)

Kentake Mut Merimut: AkokO Nan: Protection and Guardianship of Our Afrikan Children in the Age of WAR Course Online (TBA)

Keidi Obi Awadu: The Great AIDS Hoax Course Online (TBA)

Dr. Hassimi Oumarou Maiga: Songhoy I (Offered based on interest)

 

 
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Web Site Flore

Submitted by Enguehard on Mon, 2008-11-03 16:52
URL: 
http://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/flore/
Description: 

This web site present the name of African trees in different languages.
Today there are 375 names, 17 languages.
The language of communication is French, but browing is very simple.

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Mande Languages

Submitted by Guy on Wed, 2008-10-22 08:22
URL: 
http://mandelang.kunstkamera.ru/
Description: 

Exhaustive site on Mande languages in Russian, French and English

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Abibitumi Kasa Online Afrikan African Language Institute

Submitted by Akyeame_Kwame on Sun, 2008-04-20 23:56
URL: 
http://www.abibitumikasa.com
Description: 

Online and Ghana based Afrikan language institute teaching Yoruba class, Twi class and Wolof class.

http://www.abibitumikasa.com

Abibitumi Kasa Afrikan Language Institute: Twi, Yoruba, Wolof Online

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Unicode-Afrique

Submitted by donosborn on Sun, 2008-03-16 02:19
URL: 
http://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Unicode-Afrique/
Description: 

Unicode-Afrique est un forum sur Yahoogroupes. Il existe pour : donner publicité aux projets en Afrique utilisant l'Unicode; discuter des questions et problèmes pratiques avec Unicode et les jeux de caractères pour les langues africaines; et partager des expériences utiles sur le développement et utilisation des polices unicodes pour les langues africaines. Cet e-groupe fait partie d'une "famille" de forums de discussion sur la rencontre des langues africaines et NTIC (les autres forums sont accessibles à la page portail "A12n," dont le lien se trouve au fond de cette page).

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Corpora for African languages - An Crúbadán

Submitted by scannell on Thu, 2008-02-07 04:42
URL: 
http://borel.slu.edu/crubadan/
Description: 

The Crúbadán Project is devoted to creating basic language technology for minority languages and under-resourced languages using web-crawling and statistical techniques. As of early 2008 we have collected text corpora for 419 languages, including more than 125 African languages, and have used these to create open source spell checkers for more than 20 languages. Please contact Kevin Scannell (http://borel.slu.edu/) if you are interested in developing open source resources for other African languages using these data.

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