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The one-day SWiP event comprised an exciting panel discussion by experts in the fields of preservation of languages, culture, and digitisation of information, and an introductory mini workshop to Wikipedia focusing on editing, translating, and making content available online.

The one-day SWiP event comprised an exciting panel discussion by experts in the fields of preservation of languages, culture, and digitisation of information, and an introductory mini workshop to Wikipedia focusing on editing, translating, and making content available online.

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  • Resource guidelines

    Our repository functions as a digital storage space for a range of language resources and is available open access. The repository is made up of three parts: The Index contains metadata for all assets in the repository, those that can be downloaded and those that can be requested by the person listed as the contact…

  • Guidelines

    SADiLaR, as a research infrastructure, drives technological innovation in the fields of humanities and social sciences. We do this through the creation, management and distribution of digital language resources which are freely available through our repository. We encourage all those who work in, or have an interest in, language technologies to access and use our…

  • Spelling checkers for South African languages

    SADiLaR, in collaboration with the Centre for Text Technology (CTexT®), is pleased to offer free spelling checkers and hyphenators for ten of South Africa’s official languages. The installer can be downloaded free of charge and is designed for use with Microsoft ® Office for Windows. Installation is in English and limited support is available.   Languages offered include:…

  • Third workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL)

    Registration is now open The registration form can be found here: https://forms.gle/58KzRxGtMGQvDZt3A The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is organising the 3rd RAIL workshop in the field of Resources for African Indigenous Languages. This workshop aims to bring together researchers who are interested in showcasing their research and thereby boosting the field…

  • Mobile Dictionary application framework

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 August 2020Project Status: In Progress  Project Aims: The project aims to develop an open-source hybrid mobile application framework that will allow for online access to a TMS and dictionary API, managed through a TMS API manager (TAM) and offline access to local dictionary content. The framework will create a…

  • Parallel corpora for English-isiXhosa and English-Siswati

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 July 2019Project Status: Completed and delivered English-Siswati corpus Project Aims: This project entailed the collection and processing of bilingual data to develop a 2-million-word English–Siswati parallel-aligned corpus that can be used to train machine translation systems. The data was acquired by crawling various South African web domains and human…

  • Project Expansion and further refinement of a multi-level, multi-genre learner corpus academic writing

    Project Type: Node Project Start Date: 1 October 2020 Project Status: Completed [Finalising] Project Aims: Redevelopment of the Write‐it Course in SADiLaR’s Moodle environment Project Deliverables: Moodle Course 1.1 Task Analysis 1.2 Planning your writing 1.3 searching for information 1.4 Academic writing 1.5 Structure of a paragraph 1.6 Introduction and conclusion 1.7 Introduction to argument…

  • Towards multilingual academic literacy testing for Secondary and Higher Education

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 January 2020 Project Status: In Progress   Project Aims: Develop a translation protocol for academic literacy tests (this protocol will also consider the possibility of bias in translations) and translate and refine academic literacy tests for the following languages English, Afrikaans, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Setswana and Sesotho   Project Deliverables: Literature…

  • Human Language Technologies Audit 2017/2018

    Project Type: Node Project Start Date: 1 July 2017 Project Status: Completed   Project Aims: This project aims to provide information on the current state of HLT R&D in South Africa. Specifically, to replicate the HLT audit completed in 2009 and to update the information on the various HLT tools, resources and applications identified in…