Results of the Datathon "Teach Artificial Intelligence to Read in Kyrgyz"

Last week, the second free Datathon titled "Teach Artificial Intelligence to Read in Kyrgyz" took place in Bishkek. The winners were:

1st place — the Muras team

2nd place — the Attention team

3rd place — the Devs team.

The teams received $500, $300, and $200, respectively.

A total of 169 applications were submitted from Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, and Russia, and 110 participants successfully formed 22 teams on-site.

The participants created a model that breaks down Kyrgyz words into morphemes. For example, аталар—> ата — ROOT, лар — AFFIX. In linguistics, this task is called morphological analysis of a word, while in AI, it is a classification task.

Creating such a model required minimal programming knowledge — specifically, Python.

The total prize fund of $1000 was provided by the hackathon partner, UlutSoft.

Source: @htp__kg