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Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages

Building Capacities in Human Language Technology for African Languages

... of Linguistics working towards a master de- gree in ...in Linguistics and the Linguistics graduate has never had any formal training in computing, their collaboration has served to wi- den their ...

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Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages

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 ...

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Review of script displays of African languages by current software

Review of script displays of African languages by current software

... One of the largest originators of new orthographies worldwide would seem to be Wycliffe Bible Translators (WBT 2004) and its associated organization, the Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL 2005c). These ...

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SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS *

SCIENCE AND LINGUISTICS *

... or African languages are contrasted with our own, the divergence in analysis of the world becomes more apparent; and, when we bring in the native languages of the Americas, where speech communities ...

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Base Concepts in the African Languages Compared to Upper Ontologies and the WordNet Top Ontology

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 ...

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THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BOTSWANA

THE TRAINING OF TEACHERS OF AFRICAN LANGUAGES FOR PRIMARY SCHOOLS IN BOTSWANA

... As can be observed from Table 1, Setswana syllabus is divided into four sections, Grammar, Literature, Cultural Studies and Professional Studies. The Grammar component provides the historical background of the language ...

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Classification of South African languages using text and acoustic based methods: A case of six selected languages

Classification of South African languages using text and acoustic based methods: A case of six selected languages

... the languages’ first split from their most recent common ...In linguistics, the analogue of DNA measurements is historical information on the evolution of languages, and the more easily ...

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Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages

Interlinear Glossing and its Role in Theoretical and Descriptive Studies of African and other Lesser–Documented Languages

... although linguistics is a field with a long historical tradition and with a high degree of consensus on basic cat- egories, it experiences a fundamental de- vision concerning the role that quantita- tive methods ...

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Last Words: Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?

Last Words: Computational Linguistics: What About the Linguistics?

... computational linguistics does not need mainstream, non-computational linguistics, whether to supply intellectual credibility or to ensure ...Computational linguistics is not just linguistics ...

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Europe of languages  Between the power of languages and the languages of power

Europe of languages Between the power of languages and the languages of power

... working languages and cultural languages are not different languages, but different uses of a single ...Working languages are characterized by an assumption that radically separates them from ...

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The multimedia documentation of endangered and minority languages : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University

The multimedia documentation of endangered and minority languages : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University

... This thesis examines the impending loss of linguistic diversity in the world and advocates a change in emphasis in linguistic research towards the documentation of minority and endangere[r] ...

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The multimedia documentation of endangered and minority languages : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University

The multimedia documentation of endangered and minority languages : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Philosophy in Linguistics at Massey University

... This thesis examines the impending loss of linguistic diversity in the world and advocates a change in emphasis in linguistic research towards the documentation of minority and endangere[r] ...

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PhD Candidate Department of Linguistics and Languages McMaster University 1280 Main St W Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 CANADA

PhD Candidate Department of Linguistics and Languages McMaster University 1280 Main St W Hamilton, ON L8S 4L8 CANADA

... Research Assistant January 2014 to April 2014 Department of Linguistics and Languages, McMaster University?. • Supervisor: Dr.[r] ...

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Introductory Readings in Languages of the Pacific Islands: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Fall 2016, Linguistics 150

Introductory Readings in Languages of the Pacific Islands: University of Hawai'i at Manoa, Fall 2016, Linguistics 150

... The term family is used in a way similar to its usage in regular English: it implies descent from a common ancestor. When we speak of a language family, we assume that there was a single ancestral language spoken many ...

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PRESERVING AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IN THE FACE OF EDUCATION AND GLOBALIZATION

PRESERVING AFRICAN LANGUAGES AND TERRITORIAL INTEGRITY IN THE FACE OF EDUCATION AND GLOBALIZATION

... particularly African scholars in the use of indigenous language as a medium of ...exoglossic languages are failing individuals, their com- munities and their countries in Africa” (Williams, ...that ...

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The New Constitution and Teaching of African Languages: What Is The Way Forward For Kenya

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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Production is only half the story — First words in two East African languages

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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Documenting Endangered Languages with the WordsEye Linguistics Tool

Documenting Endangered Languages with the WordsEye Linguistics Tool

... Although languages have appeared and disap- peared throughout history, today languages are facing extinction at an unprecedented ...7,000 languages in the world are at risk of disappearing. When ...

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Issues in digital text representation, on line dissemination, sharing and re use for African minority languages

Issues in digital text representation, on line dissemination, sharing and re use for African minority languages

... This mode of text representation is common practice in linguistics scholarship, and there exists a set of standards for glossing linguistic information. The Leipzig Glossing Rules are one such standards. "They ...

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Invite Their Languages In: Community-Based Literacy Practices with Multilingual African Immigrant Girls in New York City

Invite Their Languages In: Community-Based Literacy Practices with Multilingual African Immigrant Girls in New York City

... among African women; the researchers’ participants even asked to use wooden spoons and baskets to guide the discussions instead of using a focus group ...as African immigrant girls in New York City ...

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