Now Abigail Walsh is sharing "eSTÓR and MORE: Developing Datasets for Irish NLP" at #CLIDA2024
Walsh: First official language of Ireland. Number of people who can speak the language is increasing while the number of people using it daily is declining.
Now Kevin Scannell will talk about "Explainable AI for Irish grammatical error correction" at #CLIDA2024, joining us virtually.
Scannell: kind of narrow topic, but lurking behind it is my ideas about how we should approach NLP for Celtic languages in the modern era, the era of LLMs.
The next talk is a bit different--Cedri Lothritz will talk to us about "Exploring Data Augmentation and Transfer Learning Techniques to Create Language Models for Luxembourgish" at #CLIDA2024
Motivation is to include insights into how lower resourced languages can benefit from higher resourced related languages.
Next up at #CLIDA2024 is Gruffudd Prys sharing "Recent Language Technology developments fro Welsh at Bangor University"
Prys: The team includes 8 linguists and 5 developers working on dictionaries, grammar and spelling checkers, speech synthesis and recognition, machine translation, computer-assisted translation tools, and NLP tools, all in order to facilitate the use of Welsh in digital contexts.
Up next is Daniel Cunliffe "Exploring the presence of #Cymraeg on TikTok" at #CLIDA2024
Beginning with a question: why might TikTok matter (for Welsh)?
Children aged 7-11 in Walkes are already using social media a few times a week or everyday (ranginge from 30% of 7 year olds to 65% of 11 year olds).
Nearly 90% of children in Wales use electronic devices to watch videos.
79% percent of people aged 15-24 use TikTok, an average of 69 minutes per day.
Up first is Merryn Davies-Deacon (@mdd) talking about "Variation and communities among speakers of Breton and Cornish" from a sociolinguistic perspective
#CLIDA2024 is getting started! Live stream at https://bit.ly/clida2024
I'll share some live coverage as the day goes on, though my images might not get alt text until after the day is over. Feel free to #AltText4Me anything you see!
Dave in 🏴