Linguistics News
Zoom supports Sign Language Interpretation
LJL learned recently (Nov. 3 blog post) that Zoom added a new feature to make its video communication platform more accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing users by providing a specialized view for sign language interpreting on their meetings and webinars. The meeting host can arrange for a designated interpreter and participants can opt in to view the sign language interpreter in a separate viewing box.
Zoom introduced its live transcription and automatic translation features earlier this year and LJL applauds them for making these important accessibility enhancements to their offering!
We spent a numerous hours this month trying to get EduLang published in ios. We are super excited to let you all know that EduLang is now available in Apple app store!
We need your support by downloading EduLang on your iOS/android devices! Please share any feedback or questions you have with us!
EDULANG Revews
LJL is super excited to share that we received reviews from the users around the globe. Below is a selection of some of our reviews!
Linguistics Justice League Challenge
Results!
Linguistics Justice League partnered with creAItivity to host an event to gather ideas that help bridge the gap between low and high-resource languages through Artificial Intelligence!
Special thanks to our sponsors: Taskade, Interview Cake and Balsamiq
Winning Team: Sanskriti Negi
Winner!
Sanskriti's Project Abstract - Oftentimes children of immigrants don’t know the language of the place they move to. In many places this leads to children not being able to perform as well in school, especially when no language-immersion classes are offered. Furthermore, even when language-immersion type classes are offered, they sometimes try to take out the native language of the student in hopes to fully assimilate them into a new culture.
Honorable Mentions
Team Cyber: Basil Friday Ovu, Janeth Oluebube Eni, Philip Oghenesuowho Ekiugbo
Paridhi Ramtani
Thank you to our sponsors!
New Team members
Vanessa is a recent graduate of the University of Washington in Informatics, Software Development. Since a young age, she has taken an interest in drawing and designing, especially technology. Thus, with the combined passion for both, she has pursued being a front-end developer with strong knowledge in React, React Native, Javascript, HTML and CSS. However, her goal is to be able to master all levels of development, languages and frameworks. Thus, she also is experienced in mobile development, backend development and more.
Talal Younis is a high school student in Jordan interested in linguistics, specifically computational linguistics. Talal speaks Arabic, English, French and is currently learning Italian. Learning languages is something that Talal is passionate about. Talal is also interested in the connection between computer science, mathematics, and languages. Living in Jordan, the refugee crisis allows Talal to realize that many individuals do not have access to the resources they need simply because they speak low-resource languages. Luckily, emerging fields like Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing both offer hope. LJL is super excited to onboard Talal!
Interview with Dr. Ali, LJL board member!
We are excited to interview Dr. Ali, one of our Board members for this month’s newsletter!
Dr. Ali, LJL is honored to have you as our board member!
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