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Houcemeddine Turki presents the outcomes of the standardization of the Tunisian dialect, which are now available online. The work includes a reference linguistic bibliography for Tunisian, a standardized spelling for Tunisian in Arabic letters, a standardized spelling and a standardized morphology for Tunisian in Latin letters, and a standardized phonology of Tunisian. The project has required considerable multidisciplinary efforts and has been developed in collaboration with the Association Derja and Data Engineering and Semantics Lab (DESLab)

Houcemeddine Turki represents the Data Engineering and Semantics Research Unit to share our cutting-edge @WikiResearch projects and experience.

The German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ) Tunisia launched a call for applications for a support programme to promote the use of artificial intelligence (AI) for economic growth. The eight-month AI RISE PROGRAMME is geared towards AI startups and small and medium-sized enterprises, GIZ said. It will help connect target startups and SMEs with public and private sector enterprises in a bid to co-create AI solutions meeting the challenges they face.

We are proud to announce that our PhD researcher, Montasser AKERMI, has won first prize in the In-Com Challenge. The competition was held from March 2022 to March 2023, and Montasser’s project was awarded first prize for its innovative approach to addressing Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

Currently, large databases of open bibliographic metadata have been created and made available online in the age of open science. These resources are easily findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable thanks to their online hosting and their representation as RDF (Resource Description Framework) knowledge graphs, and could be easily aligned together thanks to a set of unique identifiers such as ORCID ID, Wikidata ID, and DOI.