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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…

  • 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…

  • African Wordnet and Multilingual Linguistic Terminology

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 October 2017Project Status: Two development phases completed (end of 2017 and end of 2019) with a third currently ongoing (ending in 2024) Project Aims: The UNISA SADiLaR node project is two-pronged and concerns the development of language resources in the form of wordnets as well as the development of linguistics…

  • Communicative Development Inventories for all South Africa’s eleven official languages

    Project Type: NodeProject Start date: 1 January 2018Project Status: Phase 1 complete; Phase 2 In Progress   Project Aims: The aim of this project is to collect and digitize data on children’s language development from 8 to 30 months and from these data construct and validate Communicative Development Inventories (COIs), which are parent completed questionnaires (for…

  • Development of a multi-level, multi-genre learner corpus academic writing

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 March 2017Project Status: Completed   Project Aims: Development of a multi-genre, multi-level learner corpus of academic writing in order to develop, refine and implement an online academic writing tool Collect additional data from various universities in South Africa to grow the multi-level, multi-genre learner corpus of academic writing Redevelopment…

  • Enabling localised language technology applications: A Computational Wide coverage resource grammar for isiZulu

    Project Type: NodeProject Start Date: 1 April 2020Project Status: Completed  Project Aims: The CSIR node of SADiLaR recently completed a project with as its main aim to deliver to the research community a high-quality, computational, wide coverage resource grammar (WCRG) for isiZulu.  WCRGs unlock opportunities for the South African languages to participate in multilingual research,…