Organiser | Shared Task: ASR and Language Resources for Indigenous Languages
Programme Chair of the SIMBig 2026 shared task on speech recognition and language resources for Indigenous languages of South America, starting with Puno Quechua.
Speaker | Building Community-Centred AI
Presenting QuechuaBase.org, an open, community-curated infrastructure for oral-first language technology for Quechua languages and Puno Quechua.
Poster | Building Community-Centred AI: Quechua Languages
A community-centred AI framework built on QuechuaBase, an open infrastructure for modelling, curating and deploying oral-first language technologies.
Speaker | Bridging Language Education, Variation, and Speech Community: Puno Quechua
How participatory data collection with Puno Quechua speakers connects language education, language variation and the speech community, and the open resources it produced.
Moderator | Quechua Teaching in Higher Education
This conference will contribute to the research, teaching, learning, dissemination, maintenance, revitalization, and promotion of Quechua languages and cultures worldwide.
Practitioner | The Puno Quechua Project
As a 2026 Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner at SILICON (Advancing Digitally Disadvantaged Languages), I presented the Puno Quechua Project and QuechuaBase.org, an open knowledge graph for …
Advisory Committee | Shared Task: Mozilla Common Voice Spontaneous Speech ASR, by Mozilla Data Collective
The goal of this shared task is to promote the development of robust automatic speech recognition (ASR) systems for spontaneous speech in a number of lower-resource languages that …
Invited Speaker | Knowledge Graphs and Under-Resourced Languages: Results
We successfully developed a pipeline to ingest and standardize Quechua linguistic data into Wikidata. The integration of Quechua into the Common Voice platform has yielded …
Presenter | Quechua Speech Datasets in Common Voice: The Case of Puno Quechua
SIMBig is one of the first conferences in Latin America grouping areas such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Deep Learning, Healthcare Informatics, Natural Language …
Invited Speaker: Decolonizing Technology: Empowering indigenous communities
The Kuyayky START Labs (KSTART) Conference initiative was launched in late 2022, with its kickoff event taking place in January 2023 in the Andean city of Jauja, Peru. In 2025, the …