Technology and the Welsh Language Conference 2019
Friday 25 January, 2019, in The Management Centre, Bangor University, 9.30 am to 4 pm
The third in our series for academics and practitioners interested in the use and dissemination of language technologies in minority languages, especially Welsh.
To be opened by Eluned Morgan, Minister for International Relations and the Welsh Languagewho will present the Welsh Government’s new Welsh Language Technology Action Plan
Other speakers will include:
Claudia Soria, Institute Computational Linguistics “A.Zampolli”, Pisa, Italy: The DLDP’s Digital Language Survival Kit
Kelly Davis, Mozilla: Mozilla’s Deep Speech Project for Speech Recognition
Teresa Lynn, DCU, Ireland: Machine Translation and the Irish Experience
Myfyr Prys, KTP Associate Cymen / Bangor University: Machine Translation for Limited Domains
Jason Evans, National Wikimedian, National Library of Wales: Welsh Wicipedia and Welsh Wikidata data
Conference themes will be:
- Welsh Language Technology Action Plan
- Digital strategies and language revitalization
- Speech Technology for Welsh
- Language technologies as a driver for the economy
Registration for the conference is now open
The conference is sponsored by the Welsh Government
and
Supported by the Bangor University ESRC Impact Acceleration Account.
