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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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The African Stopwords project: curating stopwords for African languages
CoRR, 2023 Stopwords are fundamental in Natural Language Processing (NLP) techniques for information retrieval. One of the common tasks in preprocessing of text data is the removal of stopwords. Currently, while high-resource languages like English benefit from the availability of several stopwords, low-resource languages, such as those found in the African ...
Chris Emezue +21 more
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Literator, 2010 This article examines the array of macro and micro historical factors that stirred historical agency in the 1970s war against colonial settlerism as depicted in selected liberation war fiction.
I. Muwati, D.E. Mutasa, M.L. Bopape
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A multimodal analysis of Piggyvest’s animated advertisement videos
Language and Semiotic Studies, 2023 This study examines the persuasive strategies in selected animated advertisement videos by Piggyvest, the first and one of the fastest-growing online savings platforms in Nigeria, whose modus operandi is quite different from those of the conventional ...
Odedeyi Toluwani Deborah +1 more
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The Utilisation of Outer Texts in the Practical Lexicography of African Languages [PDF]
, 2010 <p>ABSTRACT: In this article, an analysis of the utilisation of outer texts in recently compiled dictionaries of African languages is presented.
Dion Nkomo +5 more
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South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2017 Literature helps us understand and make sense of the world around us. It is a part of education, which broadens one’s mind about how to understand, transfer knowledge and provide meaningful and authentic learning. Thus, this article aims to highlight how
Nozuko Gxekwa, Nomsa Satyo
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Code switching in contemporary isiZulu performance poetry
Literator, 2021 Recent developments in isiZulu poetry have been marked by an emergence of performance poets whose poems have gained popularity with younger audiences.
Bongephiwe Dlamini Myeni +1 more
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Literator, 2010 Over the years Shona fiction that portrays Zimbabwe’s liberation war has been a subject of severe criticism because of its tendency to falsify and distort history.
D.E. Mutasa, W.L. Chigidi
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