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International Journal of the Sociology of Language
Abstract Despite their vast potential, African languages are often marginalised in the knowledge production ecosystem. This article explores the multifaceted roles African languages could play not just in shaping and preserving indigenous knowledge systems and fostering cultural identities but also in being languages of science and ...
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Texting and African language literacy

New Media & Society, 2011
Mobile communication has become an important part of everyday life in Senegal, and text messages have turned out to be highly multilingual. So far Senegalese language policy has supported the use of the official language, French, in education and in writing in general, while the majority language, Wolof, has dominated the oral sphere. As SMS texts tend
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Natural language processing for African languages

2023
Recent advances in pre-training of word embeddings and language models leverage large amounts of unlabelled texts and self-supervised learning to learn distributed representations that have significantly improved the performance of deep learning models on a large variety of natural language processing tasks.
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Statistical unicodification of African languages

Language Resources and Evaluation, 2011
Many languages in Africa are written using Latin-based scripts, but often with extra diacritics (e.g. dots below in Igbo: $${\d i}, {\d o}, {\d u}$$ ) or modifications to the letters themselves (e.g. open vowels "e" and "o" in Lingala: ?, ?). While it is possible to render these characters accurately in Unicode, oftentimes keyboard input methods are ...
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