WeeklyWed: NLP - Language Preservation - Global South

Sudha Jamthe
Jun 15, 2022

Language is like a river, unspoken it vanishes into the history books. We are responsible for our language and it's growth. Each and every language carries a basket of culture and has a beautiful story weaved in time. A loss of language is loss of history and tradition!

This WeeklyWed we have Dr. Tiago Felipe Avanci who is looking at Portuguese NLP to train AI by decolonizing Portuguese data. Dr. Tiago Felipe Avanci is a Professor of Law at Universidade Paulista,Universidade São Judas Tadeu,Researcher at the Society and Technology Study Center (CEST) Universidade de São Paulo,and a Postdoc at the Mediterranea International Center for Human Rights Research, connected with Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria.

The highlight of this WeeklyWed is we are bringing you Divya Dwivedi to interview the speaker of the week. Divya is a practising advocate at the Supreme Court of India. A result-driven Engineer and MBA turned Lawyer with experience in ensuring the legality of commercial transactions of Corporate world involving fields like AI, IoT, Data Privacy, IPR.

Join us @ 9 AM PT on 15th June for this deep and insightful session on language preservation.