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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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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Spoken data corpus for Afrikaans, Setswana, Sesotho sa Leboa
Project Type: Open CallProject Start Date: 1 January 2020Project Status: Completed Project Aims: The phonetics and phonology of Coloured Afrikaans have as yet barely received any serious attention. This is largely due to the lack of adequate spoken data corpora. Without it, no complete and reliable acoustic descriptions are possible. In relation to this, satisfactory…
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Corpus and system development for automatic captioning of official speeches
Project Type: SADiLaR Node – CSIR Speech NodeProject Start Date: 1 April 2020 Project Status: In progress Project Aims: The primary aim of the proposed project is to create a corpus of automatically transcribed government speeches. The CSIR proposes to start with the current president (Mr Cyril Ramaphosa) and then expand the corpus with speeches made…
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SADiLaR Publications
List of published and/or submitted research output (conference or journal papers, book chapters and other academic dissemination) Bosch, S and M, Griesel. 2018. African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages. 9th Global Wordnet Conference, Singapore: Nanyang Technological University (NTU). Type: Conference Paper Link: (1) https://aclanthology.org/2018.gwc-1.36/ (2) http://compling.hss.ntu.edu.sg/events/2018-gwc/pdfs/GWC2018_paper_22.pdf Baumann, A and Wissing, D.P. 2018. Stabilising…
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SADiLaR DH Symposiums
BACKGROUND The field of digital humanities fits in the intersection between humanities (in the broad sense) and computing/digital technologies. It allows for the answering of questions that previously could not be answered. For researchers from the broad field of humanities, digital humanities provides access to computational approaches that allow, for example, for the investigation of…
