{"id":6133,"date":"2019-08-19T10:16:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T10:16:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/femmegineering\/"},"modified":"2019-08-19T10:16:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T10:16:33","slug":"femmegineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/femmegineering\/","title":{"rendered":"Exciting research to be shared at the Femmegineering celebration!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"googlefontscall\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pagebuilderckparams\" data-colorpalettefromtemplate=\"\" data-colorpalettefromsettings=\",,,,\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"rowck ckstack3 ckstack2 ckstack1 uick-sortable\" id=\"row_ID1566209521363\" data-gutter=\"2%\" data-nb=\"1\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<style class=\"ckcolumnwidth\">[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"1\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) [data-width=\"100\"] {width:100%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"1\"].ckadvancedlayout [data-width=\"100\"] {width:100%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"1\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) .blockck:not(:first-child) {margin-left:2%;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"inner animate clearfix\">\n<div class=\"blockck\" id=\"block_ID1566209521363\" data-real-width=\"100%\" data-width=\"100\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"inner animate resizable\">\n<div class=\"innercontent uick-sortable\">\n<div id=\"ID1566209557360\" class=\"cktype\" data-type=\"text\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"tab_blocstyles ckprops\" blocbackgroundpositionend=\"100\" blocbackgrounddirection=\"topbottom\" blocbackgroundimageattachment=\"scroll\" blocbackgroundimagerepeat=\"no-repeat\" blocbackgroundimagesize=\"auto\" blocbordertopstyle=\"solid\" blocborderrightstyle=\"solid\" blocborderbottomstyle=\"solid\" blocborderleftstyle=\"solid\" blocbordersstyle=\"solid\" blocshadowinset=\"0\" fieldslist=\"blocbackgroundpositionend,blocbackgrounddirection,blocbackgroundimageattachment,blocbackgroundimagerepeat,blocbackgroundimagesize,blocalignementleft,blocalignementcenter,blocalignementright,blocalignementjustify,blocbordertopstyle,blocborderrightstyle,blocborderbottomstyle,blocborderleftstyle,blocbordersstyle,blocshadowinset\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tab_edition ckprops\" fieldslist=\"\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"ckstyle\">\n<style><\/style>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"cktext inner\" style=\"position: relative;\" spellcheck=\"false\">\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">The days of men dominating the Engineering scene is still an evident and alarming fact. Despite an improvement in recent years, there remains a serious shortage of women pursuing careers in Engineering. The North-West University aims to change this &#8211; one semester at a time\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">The NWU\u2019s Faculty of Engineering will once again host this year\u2019s annual Femmegineering celebration on Saturday, 3 August 2019 where the attending grade 10, 11 and 12 girls can look forward to speakers who specialises in various interesting, and somewhat, complicated fields.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">SADiLaR, the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (funded by the Department of Science and Technology and hosted by NWU) will also be present at this celebration and is exciting to present two guest speakers at the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Tanja Gaustad, the Manager for Resource Development and Senior Computational Linguist at the Centre for Text Technology of the NWU, will give an introduction to Human Language Technology on the basis of the example of word prediction in language modeling and its real-world use in applications. The focus will be on the diversity of tasks and techniques along with why they are interesting for someone with a more technical interest in engineering, programming and\/or intelligent systems.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">\u201cComputational Linguistics is an interdisciplinary field of research where natural language (spoken by humans) is modelled from a computational perspective, allowing for the analysis of large amounts of data. What makes this field interesting and rewarding to me is, on the one hand, working in interdisciplinary teams with linguists, programmers and native speakers of a language, and, on the other hand, that there are still so many unsolved problems for less common languages to explore and improve,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Dr Febe de Wet, yet another expert in the field of Digital Signal Processing Group at Stellenbosch University, will also address the audience about speech-to-text-systems. \u201cThe people of South Africa are multilingual: the country recognises 11 official languages, and in practice even more are spoken. Automatic speech recognisers (speech-to-text systems) are, however, designed for monolingual input, as may be expected in many large economies such as North America, Japan or countries in Europe. In contrast, everyday South African speech often contains a mixture of languages and such mixed language speech cannot be understood by even the best commercial speech recognisers available today. To develop a mixed-language speech recognition system, a data set of mixed-language speech is needed,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Dr de Wet is currently working on a project in which a data set containing such speech in five South African languages is being developed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">If you have not done so as yet, you are invited to apply to attend the annual Femmegineering celebration on the North-West University\u2019s Potchefstroom Campus!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Spaces are limited so selection for attendance is based on grades for Maths and Science along with a motivation. Applying does not guarantee attendance. Successful applicants will receive an e-mail or sms.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\" data-mce-style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Contact Annika Pretorius at <a href=\"mailto:a.pretorius0512@gmail.com\" data-mce-href=\"mailto:a.pretorius0512@gmail.com\">a.pretorius0512@gmail.com<\/a> for more details or visit this link to register: <a href=\"http:\/\/iqi.su\/cVsVb\" data-mce-href=\"http:\/\/iqi.su\/cVsVb\">http:\/\/iqi.su\/cVsVb<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<div id=\"ID1566209521383\" class=\"cktype\" data-type=\"text\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"cktext inner\" style=\"position: relative;\" spellcheck=\"false\">\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"rowck ckstack3 ckstack2 ckstack1 uick-sortable\" id=\"row_ID1566209745375\" data-gutter=\"2%\" data-nb=\"2\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<style class=\"ckcolumnwidth\">[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) [data-width=\"50\"] {width:49%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"].ckadvancedlayout [data-width=\"50\"] {width:50%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) .blockck:not(:first-child) {margin-left:2%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) [data-width=\"50\"] {width:49%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"].ckadvancedlayout [data-width=\"50\"] {width:50%;}[data-gutter=\"2%\"][data-nb=\"2\"]:not(.ckadvancedlayout) .blockck:not(:first-child) {margin-left:2%;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"inner animate clearfix\">\n<div class=\"blockck\" id=\"block_ID1566209745376\" data-real-width=\"49%\" data-width=\"50\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"inner animate resizable\">\n<div class=\"innercontent uick-sortable\">\n<div id=\"ID1566209750936\" class=\"cktype\" data-type=\"image\" onshow=\"ckAddDndForImageUpload(jQuery('#ID1566209750936')[0]);\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ckstyle\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"imageck\">\n\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"100%\" height=\"auto\" src=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Femmegineering_1.jpg\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Femmegineering_1.jpg\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"blockck\" id=\"block_ID1566209746686\" data-real-width=\"49%\" data-width=\"50\" style=\"position: relative;\">\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"inner animate resizable\">\n<div class=\"innercontent uick-sortable\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ckstyle\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The days of men dominating the Engineering scene is still an evident and alarming fact. 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