Professor Karol Nowakowski will give a lecture titled the “Application of computational technologies in the study and revitalization of the Ainu language” this June! Make sure to join us for this special SALC event!

About the Lecture: Technologies being developed within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) have an important role to play in the urgent tasks of documenting, analyzing and revitalizing endangered languages. At the same time, the rapid development and spread of language-related technologies observed in recent decades may result in a technological gap between smaller and majority languages – which in turn could threaten the survival of the former – if linguistic minorities are not provided with equal access to said technologies. Among such languages is Ainu, a critically endangered language isolate native to northern parts of the Japanese archipelago. This lecture focuses on the results of research devoted to the development of Natural Language Processing technologies for the Ainu language.

About the speaker: Professor Karol Nowakowski is a lecturer at the Tohoku University of Community Service and Science. Professor Nowakowski received his doctoral degree in Engineering from the Graduate School of Engineering, Kitami Institute of Technology in 2020. He specializes in Natural Language Processing and Computational Linguistics. His research mainly focuses on computer processing of the Ainu language.

Link:
https://moodle.s.kyushu-u.ac.jp/course/view.php?id=29773

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