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WordNets for South African Languages
, 2020 Initially published by: Sonja E Bosch and Marissa Griesel. 2017. Strategies for building WordNets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages. Literator (Potchefstroom. Online), 38(1):1–12.
Sefara, Tshephisho +2 more
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Linguistically annotated dataset for four official South African languages with a conjunctive orthography: IsiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu, and Siswati. [PDF]
Data Brief, 2022 This resource contains linguistically annotated data for four official South African languages with a conjunctive orthography from the Nguni family (isiNdebele, isiXhosa, isiZulu and Siswati) as well as English.
Gaustad T, Puttkammer MJ.
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African Journal of Inter-Multidisciplinary Studies, 2023 Since the outbreak of COVID-19 towards the end of 2019 and its proliferation across the globe, the lives of many populations have been disrupted, causing intense turbulence in social, economic and political dimensions.
Mlamli Diko
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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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The South African Human Language Technology Audit [PDF]
Language Resources and Evaluation, 2011 Human language technology (HLT) has been identified as a priority area by the South African government. However, despite efforts by government and the research and development (R&D) community, South Africa has not yet been able to maximise the opportunities of HLT and create a thriving HLT industry.
Aditi Sharma Grover +2 more
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Converting South African sign language to verbal
SAIEE Africa Research Journal, 2023 There is a significant population of hearing-impaired people who reside in South Africa; however, South African Sign Language (SASL) has not yet been recognized as South Africa's 12th official language, resulting in slow uptake of this important language.
Chakoma, Shingirirai, Baron, Philip
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Low-Resource Language Modelling of South African Languages
, 2021 Language models are the foundation of current neural network-based models for natural language understanding and generation. However, research on the intrinsic performance of language models on African languages has been extremely limited, which is made more challenging by the lack of large or standardised training and evaluation sets that exist for ...
Stuart Mesham +3 more
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Perspectives in Education, 2021 The lack of equivalence between African languages on the one hand and Afrikaans and English on the other hand under the governments that ruled South Africa until the collapse of apartheid has seriously undermined the status of African languages ...
Soyiso Khetoa, Sara Motsei
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Die beeld van afwesigheid en die politiek van naamgewing in Shona-oorlogsfiksie
Literator, 2013 Tydens Zimbabwe se bevrydingsoorlog het duisende jong mense die grense van buurlande oorgesteek om wapens op te neem teen kolonialisme. Daar bestaan voldoende getuienis dat baie van hierdie jong mense vroulik was.
Willie L. Chigidi, Davie E. Mutasa
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Strategies for building wordnets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages
Literator, 2017 The African Wordnet Project (AWN) aims at building wordnets for five African languages: Setswana, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Sesotho sa Leboa (also referred to as Sepedi or Northern Sotho) and Tshivenda.
Sonja E. Bosch, Marissa Griesel
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