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Tokenizers for African Languages
IEEE AccessDespite incredible development in the field of natural language processing (NLP), there has been a huge gap in the performance of NLP tasks between high-resource languages (HRLs) and low-resource languages (LRLs).
Goodwill Erasmo Ndomba +2 more
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, 2021 Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as a formal, constraint-based grammatical theory has been used to analyze various languages around the world since the 1970s. These analyses comprise grammatical descriptions, grammatical formalizations, and computational implementations of the grammars developed using LFG.
Bodomo, Adams, Che, Dewei
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African Languages Development in Education -Bilingualism and African Languages
International Journal of Language and Literary Studies, 2022 The issue of teaching in the mother tongue has generated significant and controversial debates among decision-makers and has engendered different policies aiming to enhance the use of mother tongues into educational curricula. Africa is a perfect illustration of a continent where mother tongues have been marginalized over years to let the place to ...
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AI4D -- African Language Program
, 2021 Advances in speech and language technologies enable tools such as voice-search, text-to-speech, speech recognition and machine translation. These are however only available for high resource languages like English, French or Chinese. Without foundational digital resources for African languages, which are considered low-resource in the digital context ...
Kathleen Siminyu +17 more
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African Languages and African Literature
UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011 In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Eme, CA, Mbagwu, DU
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Mystery in Sepedi detective stories
Literator, 2007 The aim of this article is to illustrate the importance of the concept “mystery” in the classification of Sepedi detective stories. Mystery is therefore first defined, and then some rules governing how mystery is created and sustained in a narrative are ...
M.J. Mojalefa, N.I. Magapa
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Improved text language identification for the South African languages [PDF]
2017 Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), 2017 Virtual assistants and text chatbots have recently been gaining popularity. Given the short message nature of text-based chat interactions, the language identification systems of these bots might only have 15 or 20 characters to make a prediction.
Bernardt Duvenhage +2 more
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A philosophical interpretation of the significance of oral forms in I. Mabasa’s novel Mapenzi (1999)
Literator, 2008 The article critically analyses the use of Shona oral art forms in I. Mabasa’s novel “Mapenzi” (“Mad people”/“Foolish people”). It departs from the realisation that the writer identifies with Shona people’s oral experiences in the form of songs, “bembera”
D.E. Mutasa, I. Mutawi
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