{"id":6715,"date":"2020-06-29T05:46:00","date_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/sadilar-team-isizulu\/"},"modified":"2020-06-29T05:46:00","modified_gmt":"2020-06-29T05:46:00","slug":"sadilar-team-isizulu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-team-isizulu\/","title":{"rendered":"SADiLaR Team: isiZulu Researcher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Author: Mieke Hofmeyr<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Ms. Rooweither Mabuya is SADiLaR\u2019s IsiZulu language researcher. She finds computational linguistics interesting. More particularly she is interested in the development of resources for African languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">Whilst the current Covid-19 situation and national lockdown is impacting the whole of South Africa and its workforce, Ms. Mabuya is staying focused by working on various projects.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><strong><em>\u201c<\/em><\/strong><em>During the national lockdown I worked on the Resources for African Indigenous Languages virtual workshop. I am also busy writing two articles on Named Entity Recognition and Digitizing Humanities in South Africa\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">With all of the uncertainties on when the lockdown will be lifted, Ms. Mabuya plans to be working on conceptualizing a comparative study with a colleague. She stresses the fact that she plans to make the most of the lockdown period over the following few months.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\">She does acknowledge that African languages are often categorized as less resourced. She concludes by saying:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'trebuchet ms', geneva, sans-serif;\"><em>\u201cDigital Humanities emphasizes the development and use of specialized techniques by building the relevant resources\u201d.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: Mieke Hofmeyr Ms. Rooweither Mabuya is SADiLaR\u2019s IsiZulu language researcher. She finds computational linguistics interesting. More particularly she is interested in the development of resources for African languages. Whilst the current Covid-19 situation and national lockdown is impacting the whole of South Africa and its workforce, Ms. Mabuya is staying focused by working on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":246,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[741],"tags":[745,795,772,770,796],"class_list":["post-6715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-digital-humanities","tag-isizulu","tag-language-resources","tag-research","tag-south-african-languages"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/246"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6715\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}