African languages
Government Domain Named Entity Recognition for South African Languages
... the languages were developed to form, in most cases, baseline systems that could be used for other development projects, or as starting points from which to improve NER systems for the South African ...
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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
... in African languages and would like to leverage the tools and approaches of computational linguistics, as well as computational linguists who are interested in learning about the particular linguistic ...
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Developing a Multilingual Telephone Based Information System in African Languages
... the African languages are tone languages (similar to some of the Far Eastern languages where the tone has semantic value), we expect that pitch will have to be included as a feature for ...
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A Repository of Free Lexical Resources for African Languages: The Project and the Method
... “African Languages in Advance” at the 2008 Poznań Linguistic Meet- ing, where we presented our Swahili-Polish pro- ject and also mentioned FreeDict as the place where we wanted to donate parts of our test ...
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PRESERVING AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IN THE FACE OF EDUCATION AND GLOBALIZATION
... Thus, African languages could still be preserved to be part of the present global affairs, they could still be made to thrive and gain a foothold, first in their native lands, and then elsewhere without ...
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Classification of South African languages using text and acoustic based methods: A case of six selected languages
... Language variations are generally known to have a severe impact on the performance of Human Language Technology Systems. In or- der to predict or improve system performance, a thorough investigation into these ...
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Developing Text Resources for Ten South African Languages
... In addition to the corpora collected and annotated in this project, we were also tasked with developing initial versions of core technologies associated with the various annotation layers. These core technologies can be ...
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The New Constitution and Teaching of African Languages: What Is The Way Forward For Kenya
... indigenous African languages, Muthwii (2002: 86) suggests actions that should be taken by the ...indigenous African languages in ...42 languages, Heine & Mὅhlig (1980) and Whitely ...
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Review of script displays of African languages by current software
... recorded African languages that have a writing system have orthographies which use the Roman or Arabic scripts, with a few ...displaying African languages has been limited by the availability ...
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Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages
... the African Network of Localiz- ers (AnLoc), Alt-i is developing a spelling checker for Yoruba in Open ...and African Languages at the University of Ibadan are playing an active role in this ...
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The Valorisation of African Languages and Policies in the African Education Systems: A Case of Uganda
... by African countries over ...Many African governments are tending towards local/arterial languages in educational policy and are supportive of inclusion of African languages in ...
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African Languages and Community Participation in Environmental Management
... of African languages has often been ignored under the guise that they do not adequately represent the environmental ...an African language such as Chichewa in environmental management discourse can ...
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Information Structure in African Languages: Corpora and Tools
... In this paper, we described the Africanist projects of the CRC „Information Structure“ at the University of Potsdam and the Humboldt University of Berlin/Germany, together with their data collections from currently 25 ...
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Collecting Resources in Sub Saharan African Languages for Automatic Speech Recognition: a Case Study of Wolof
... This paper presented the data collected and ASR systems developped for 4 sub-saharan african languages (Swahili, Hausa, Amharic and Wolof). All data and scripts are avail- able online on our github 8 ...
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THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BOTSWANA
... other languages were also taken into ...other languages in the country. The Department of African Languages and Literature at the University of Botswana should as a matter of urgency design an ...
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Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology
... South African Bantu languages have a solid docu- mented grammatical and lexical ...Bantu languages by the linguistics department of Oxford Univer- sity (Guthrie, 1948) and by European researchers ...
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Vers l’informatisation de quelques langues d’Afrique de l’Ouest (Towards the computerization of some west african languages) [in French]
... (International Phonetic Association) et de l’IAI (International African Institute). Ainsi, chacun des alphabets que nous avons précédemment présentés comprend au moins un de ces "nouveaux" caractères : ɓ ɗ ...
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Production is only half the story — First words in two East African languages
... Early production and comprehension 44 Table 6 – Categories of words in production vocabulary at different vocabulary sizes expressed as a proportion of chances to choose each category Pr[r] ...
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Idiosyncratic sound systems of the South African Bantu languages: Research and clinical implications for speech-language pathologists and audiologists
... across languages) by Coetzee, De Jager, and Van der Merwe (2011) found speech signs in a multilingual individual with apraxia of speech (AOS) which were similar to the signs described for ...two African ...
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Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages
... Craft. Although glossing on several tiers is con- ceptually more appropriate, linguistic publications require a more condensed format. As for now we have decided on an export which displays 6 tiers. Next to export to the ...
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