The conference was attended by the ministers of science and higher education of Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan. The works of Ahmet Baitursynuly are of great value for the Turkic scientific community, as they cover a wide range of areas. He is known in history as a Turkologist, a founding scholar of Kazakh linguistics and literary studies, a reformer of national writing, and a spiritual leader of the “Alash” movement.
“The origins of linguistics, literary studies, and teaching methods are laid in the works of Ahmet Baitursynuly. His scientific concepts are still widely used in the teaching process and the scientific direction. And today, at the formation of the new alphabet, in terminology formation and language teaching, we cannot help turning to his works,” – Minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan Sayasat Nurbek noted in his salutatory speech.
At the conference, the International Turkic Academy presented the books “Turkestan – the encyclopedia of the Turkic world,” “Leading figures of the Turkic world,” “Ahmet Baitursynov and Alash.”
Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, and Kyrgyzstan’s ministers of science and higher education also learned some of NU laboratories’ work and projects of the Institute of Intelligent Systems and Artificial Intelligence (ISSAI). Scientists from the Institute have developed a technology to recognize language and convert text into speech. This technology has helped them create projects such as the Kazakh Speech Corpus and Kazakh Speech Recognition. The Minister of Science and Higher Education of Kazakhstan Sayasat Nurbek noted the importance of projects in the digitalization and development of the Kazakh language. Now scientists are creating a unified system of recognition of Turkic languages.
