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“AI Cannot Speak African”: An Intersectional Feminist Perspective on South African Women's AI Engagement

Gender, Work &Organization, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using an intersectional feminist perspective, this study investigates intersectional inequalities in artificial intelligence (AI) engagement among underrepresented non‐Western women. The study employs a qualitative approach and interviews 16 corporate women in South Africa of different races.
Caren Brenda Scheepers, Poh Yen Ng, Chow Siing Sia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Contested Coexistence: Transnational Private Governance and Public Regulatory Reform in Global Value Chains

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article examines how a transnational coalition of NGOs, unions, and labor rights organizations drove both private and public regulation on gender‐based violence and harassment in Lesotho's garment sector, and how the resulting regulatory systems coexist despite ongoing tension between them.
Pauline Jerrentrup, Jade Kosché
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian Inference for PCFGs via Markov Chain Monte Carlo [PDF]

, 2007
This paper presents two Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms for Bayesian inference of probabilistic context free grammars (PCFGs) from terminal strings, providing an alternative to maximum-likelihood estimation using Inside-Outside algorithm.
Johnson, Mark, Griffiths, Thomas, Goldwater, Sharon; id_orcid   +2 more
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The Lexicographic Treatment of Days in Sepedi, or When Mother-Tongue Intuition Fails*

Lexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: Since May 2001 the Sepedi National Lexicography Unit officially started the actual dictionary-writing of a pioneering Explanatory Sepedi Dictionary (PyaSsaL).
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, B. Lepota
doaj   +1 more source

pryslied vir ’n vreeslose gewete

Acta Theologica, 2022
A poem in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa and Sesotho in honour of Desmond Mpilo Tutu (7 October 1931 – 26 December 2021).
A. Krog
doaj   +1 more source

Linguistic Citizenship Inside and Beyond the Coloniality of English

World Englishes, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article describes how Black students within educational settings are positioned in relation to English, while also foregrounding fleeting moments of liberation and transformation. We focus specifically on the role of English within the linguistic repertoires of Black students in the Technical and Vocational Education and Training sector ...
Alexa Anthonie, Marcelyn Oostendorp
wiley   +1 more source

Sesotho names for exotic and indigenous edible plants in southern Africa

Bothalia: African Biodiversity & Conservation, 2006
A comprehensive checklist of Sesotho names of both indigenous and exotic food plants is presented, based on a literature survey and the first author's experience. The list includes the scientific names.
A. Moteetee, B-E. van Wyk
doaj   +1 more source

A blatant disregard of Section 6 (1) of the Constitution of South Africa by higher education institutions and language authorities: An onomastic discrepancy

Literator, 2022
The primary focus of this article is the onomastic discrepancies that are considered a blatant disregard of Section 6 (1) of the Constitution of South Africa (Act No. 108 of 1996).
Tebogo J. Rakgogo, Evangeline B. Zungu
doaj   +1 more source

Metaphor patterns in Sesotho fiction: The case of the novel Chaka

Tydskrif vir Letterkunde
In this study, we examine the nature, distribution, and stylistic effect of metaphors used in the Sesotho novel Chaka. Previous studies have discussed the metaphoric language in Thomas Mofolo’s work, revealing that, among others, Mofolo uses metaphors ...
Ntšoeu Seepheephe, Makhetsi Makha-Ntlaloe   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Standardization or Stigmatization? Challenges Confronting Lexicography and Terminography in Sesotho sa Leboa

Lexikos, 2011
<p>Abstract: The article investigates the effects of the underutilization of the abundant vocabulary of Sesotho sa Leboa, which results from a one-sided standardization approach owing to the disregard and stigmatization of most dialects. Sesotho sa
V.M. Mojela
doaj   +1 more source