Guest lecturers from Kyrgyzstan

Dr. Nurgul Karybekova and Dr.  Jumagul Nurakun Kyzy, lecturers from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan), have visited our department and given two lectures during their stay at the UdS:

• ‘DH and Kyrgyz Oral Literature: New Perspectives Enabled by the Kyrgyz Corpus Project at Saarland University’ (Dr Nurgul Karybekova);
• ‘Kyrgyz NLP in the Era of AI: Opportunities and Obstacles’ (Dr Jumagul Nurakun Kyzy).

The visit was part of the KA171 ERASMUS cooperation between the two universities, which, in addition to mutual staff mobility, also offers up to six students from Kyrgyzstan the opportunity to complete an exchange programme in Saarbrücken. In the current semester, the UdS is welcoming four students from Kyrgyz-Turkish Manas University.