SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: CONFERENCE ON THE KABYLE COMPUTER LEXICON

Samia Saad-Bouzefrane, a university professor in Paris, is currently in Canada for a series of conferences and meetings in Montreal and Ottawa-Gatineau.

These events are organised around her recently published book, ‘Lexique d’informatique : Français, English, Taqbaylit’.



SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: CONFERENCE ON THE SCHOOL ACTIVITIES: CONFERENCE ON THE KABYLE COMPUTER LEXICON

As part of its educational, scientific and cultural activities, the Kabyle Digital School is organising a conference entitled: Computer lexicon in the Kabyle language.

Date: Sunday, 08 September 2024
Time: 12:30 pm
Place: Collège de Maisonneuve Auditorium, Montreal, Quebec
Address: 3800 Sherbrooke Street East, Montreal, H1X 2A2
Nearest metro station: Metro P-IX
Free admission

The conference will be presented by Professor Samiya Saad-Buzefran, University Professor and Director of the CEDRIC Laboratory in France.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE CONFERENCE
The conference will be divided into two parts:
In the first part, Samiya Nat Belɛid will present her professional background before returning to the creation of the dictionary in the Kabyle language, explaining the approach adopted and illustrating it with concrete examples.
The second part will be devoted to the Kabyle-language computer lexicon. It will address the adoption of computer terminology on the Internet, highlighting examples of essential terms that should be included to update this lexicon.
Ms Samiya Nat Belɛid is also preparing teaching material in the form of videos of computer lessons in Kabyle, with the aim of popularising the subject.

A book-selling session for her Dictionnaire de terminologie informatique : English, Français, Taqvaylit is planned immediately after the conference.
Admission is free.

You are all cordially invited.

Samiya Saad-Buzefran, also known as Samia Nat Belɛid, obtained her doctorate in computer science from the University of Poitiers (France) in 1998. After spending four years at the University of Le Havre as Maître de Conférences in Computer Science, she joined the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers (Cnam) in Paris in September 2002. She has been a University Professor at CNAM since September 2019.

Until December 2023, she held the position of IT expert referent for the research tax credit within the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
Since January 2024, she has been head of the CEDRIC Laboratory, which brings together more than 170 teacher-researchers and doctoral students.
She is also the author and co-author of numerous books, including Dictionary d’informatique Anglais-Français-Berbère, Systems d’exploitation, Cartes à puce and Systèmes de gestion d’identité. She has also co-authored more than 120 published scientific articles.

Her current areas of research focus mainly on security on the Internet of Things (IoT), using artificial intelligence techniques in particular.
She is also involved in several research projects, including a French ANR project that she is coordinating, focusing on the detection of attacks in Cyber-physical systems using graph-based neural network (GNN) methods.