AfricaNLP2022 Workshop Schedule

Time (GMT+1)
What?
10:00 - 10:05Opening Remark
10:00 - 10:50
Convenience, Random or Purposive Sampling African Languages and Global NLP- - Túndé Adégbọlá
10:50 - 11:00Q&A for Morning Keynote
11:00 - 11:30Invited Talk: Low-resource natural language processing - Cristina España-Bonet
11:30 - 11:45Q&A for Invited Talk
11:45 - 11:55Spotlight Talk 1 : Analysing the effects of transfer learning on low-resourced named entity recognition performance
11:55 - 12:05Spotlight Talk 2 : Building Text and Speech Datasets for Low Resourced Languages: A Case of Languages in East Africa
12:50 - 12:50Poster Section (Gather Town)
12:50 - 1:30Social + Break (Break)
Afternoon Sessions
1:30 - 2:15Afternoon Keynote - Joyce Nakatumba-Nabende
2:15 - 2:30Q&A for Afternoon Keynote (Q&A)
2:30 - 2:40Spotlight Talk 3 : Participatory Translations of Oshiwambo: Towards Sustainable Culture Preservation with Language Technology
2:50 - 2:30Break
3:00 - 3:45Poster Section + Social (Gather Town)
3:45 - 4:45Panel: Abeba Birhane, Mona Diab, and Audace Niyonkuru - Moderated by Perez Ogayo (discussion panel)
4:450 - 5:00Break
5:00 - 5:45Invited Talk - Timnit Gebru
5:45 - 6:00Q&A for Invited Talk (Q&A)
6:00 - 7:00Tutorial and Q&A: Zero-resource speech technology with wav2vec - Michael Auli (invited talk)
7:00 - 7:25Invited Talk and Q&A: Measuring the Representativeness of NLP Datasets - Antonios Anastasopoulos (invited talk)
7:25 - 7:30Closing remarks - David Adelani (closing remark)