Changing the future of Arabic NLP
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Sibaq Lahja
Sibaq Lahja is an initiative by the Minister of Artificial intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Application Office and Cisco Systems aiming to equip young Emirati coders and software engineers with the necessary skills to develop and deploy AI solutions in the realm of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP)
Sibaq Lahja is an initiative by the Minister of Artificial intelligence, Digital Economy and Remote Work Application Office and Cisco Systems aiming to equip young Emirati coders and software engineers with the necessary skills to develop and deploy AI solutions in the realm of Arabic Natural Language Processing (NLP)
25
Passionate
university
students
We are looking for 25 committed, ambitious, and hardworking citizens or residents who are eager to put theoretical knowledge into real-life AI applications and implementation of Emirati dialect
25
Passionate university students
The duration of the first phase is 19 weeks where you will deepen your coding knowledge while gaining a good understanding of ML, NLP and deep learning concepts through a selection of courses. Then, you will work in teams to apply this knowledge in developing an Arabic Diacritizer. Future phases of the program will include using the diacritizer for building a speech synthesis system and a variety of applications such as audiobooks and screen readers.
(hq) learn
Learn locally, think constructively and implement globally.
(hq) Assessment
Assess yourself and see how you compare to other coders locally
(hq) hackathons
Meet like-minded people in different coding fields.
(hq) challenges
Have the ability to solve corporate-level challenges for a prize in return.
(hq) hackathons
Compete against the best and solve a problem in 36-48 hours in exchange for passion and prizes
(hq) conferences
Meet with a larger group of like-minded people in a ecosystem of passion.
(hq) get inspired
Listen from those who placed a “ding” in the universe.
(hq) internship
Fresh graduate?
Apply for a coding-related internship.
(hq) 021
To create change and impact.
Registration Stage
Completed
Jun 20- Aug 8
Prototyping Workshop Stage
Execution Cycle Stage