Indigenous Language Technologies at the CoEDL Summer School (26-30 Nov, ANU Canberra)

[Stephen Wan]

(Sent on behalf of Prof. Janet Wiles, University of Queensland)

 

This Summer School may interest undergrads, postgrads and community members interested in learning about language sciences and technologies. Sessions include:

·       Machine learning with Indigenous Languages (Daan van Esch, computational linguist from Google, 4-day course)

·       Visualizing Language Data (Lydia Byrne)

·       Opie Robots: Develop language material and building your own robot (Scott Heath and the Indigenous Language Technologies team, UQ)

·       Master class: Human interactions as the foundations for language (Stephen Levinson, psycholinguist from Max Plank)

·       more  http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2018/program/

 

Title: CoEDL Summer School 2018

Dates: 26-30^th November 2018

Location: ANU, Canberra

Registration costs (before 28^th October): $300 (student/unwaged); $400 (waged) http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/education-and-outreach/train-with-us/summer-school-2018/registration/

Who can attend: everyone – some sessions are aimed at introducing computer scientists and linguists to Indigenous Language Technologies; other sessions cover different areas of language sciences.

 

This Summer School is also good background for students interested in UQ’s Indigenous Language Technology MPhil/PhD scholarships.

https://scholarships.uq.edu.au/scholarship/arc-centre-of-excellence-for-dynamics-of-language-scholarships

 

Professor Janet Wiles

ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language | Co-Innovation Research group | School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering | The University of Queensland | Cricos Provider: 00025B

 

UQ Researcher: researchers.uq.edu.au/researcher/13

Co-Innovation research: www.itee.uq.edu.au/research/co-innovation

Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language: www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/