36.1850, Media: Human Language Technology for South African Sign Language

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LINGUIST List: Vol-36-1850. Sat Jun 14 2025. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 36.1850, Media: Human Language Technology for South African Sign Language

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Date: 13-Jun-2025
From: Chrismi Loth [LothC at ufs.ac.za]
Subject: Human Language Technology for South African Sign Language


Public Talk: Human Language Technology for SASL
English/SASL interpreting provided
When
Friday, June 20, 2025
12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Where
MS Teams
About this event
The Interdisciplinary Centre for Digital Futures (ICDF) invites all
staff and students to an exciting brownbag session titled ‘Human
Language Technology for SASL at the University of the Free State’
featuring Dr Herkulaas Combrink, the Co-Director of the ICDF, and a
Senior Lecturer at the UFS in Economic and Management Sciences.
Over the past 3 years, Dr Combrink was the project manager and lead PI
on the Human Language Technology (HLT) component of a
third-stream-funded project by the Department of Sport, Arts and
Culture. This HLT project was a multi-institutional collaboration to
advance 4IR development of South African Sign Language (SASL) by
paving the way for HLT development. This project set the scene for HLT
at the UFS about SASL, and ensured that SASL 4IR development continues
through research, scholarship and community engagement.
Do not miss this opportunity to see the showcase of this project and
the exciting work that took place in the ICDF around HLT.
Date: 20 June 2025
Time: 12:00 – 13:00
Venue: MS Teams (Online)
Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 361 195 761 042 0
Passcode: W5b7Yv9s
For more information, please contact Kgomotso Motlhakoana at
MotlhakoanaK at ufs.ac.za

Linguistic Field(s): Computational Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Text/Corpus Linguistics
                     Writing Systems

Subject Language(s): South African Sign Language (sfs)




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