{"id":9045,"date":"2024-02-21T11:51:15","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:51:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/?p=9045"},"modified":"2024-02-21T11:57:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T09:57:39","slug":"latest-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/latest-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest News"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-query is-layout-flow wp-block-query-is-layout-flow\"><ul class=\"wp-block-post-template is-layout-flow wp-block-post-template-is-layout-flow\"><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12724 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR Researcher appointed to the North West Provincial Language Committee<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">31 July 2023 SADiLaR is proud to congratulate Mrs Mmasibidi Setaka-Bapela, Digital Humanities Researcher: Sesotho, on her appointment as a member of the North West Provincial Language Committee. Mrs Setaka-Bapela has been appointed for a five-year term, effective 1 June 2026, where she will contribute her expertise in language development and multilingualism to support language&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-researcher-appointed-to-the-north-west-provincial-language-committee\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12660 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR preserves nearly five decades of South African language teaching scholarship through digitisation initiative<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">27 July 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) is proud to support the preservation and long-term accessibility of South Africa&#8217;s language teaching scholarship through the digitisation of historic editions of the Journal for Language Teaching (Tydskrif vir Taalonderrig). As part of its commitment to advancing multilingualism and strengthening digital language resources,&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-preserves-nearly-five-decades-of-south-african-language-teaching-scholarship-through-digitisation-initiative\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12616 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Building the future of Sesotho through the African Wordnet<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">01 July 2026 The African Wordnet Project demonstrates that preserving and advancing indigenous languages requires contributions from people across many disciplines. Within the Sesotho African Wordnet team, linguists, translators, educators, broadcasters and language activists are working together to ensure that Sesotho remains relevant, accessible and technologically enabled for future generations. Three members of the Sesotho&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/building-the-future-of-sesotho-through-the-african-wordnet\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12544 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-about category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR Leaders Appointed to National Task Team for South Africa&#8217;s Unified National Language Action Plan<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">12 June 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR) proudly congratulates Professor Langa Khumalo, Chief Director and Mr Juan Steyn, Operations Director, on their appointment to the National Task Team Towards a Unified National Language Action Plan by the Minister of Sport, Arts and Culture, Mr Gayton McKenzie. The appointments follow resolutions&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilar-leaders-appointed-to-national-task-team-for-south-africas-unified-national-language-action-plan\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12514 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Coding for the Humanities: R-Programming Workshop at Stellenbosch University<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">02 June 2026 Twenty participants from the humanities and social sciences attended a R-programming workshop at Stellenbosch University from 12-14 May. The workshop was hosted by SADiLaR\u2019s ESCALATOR Programme in collaboration with their Child Language Development Node (CLDN), housed in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at Stellenbosch University. Facilitated by Dr Bianca Peterson,&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/coding-for-the-humanities-r-programming-workshop-at-stellenbosch-university\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12464 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news category-uncategorized tag-child-language-development-node tag-digital-language-resources tag-handlab tag-language tag-sadilar tag-sasl tag-socigo tag-south-african-sign-language tag-stellenbosch-university\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">South African Sign Language Dissemination Event: Promoting Inclusion in Digital Spaces<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">Media Release: 15 May 2026 The South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), in collaboration with its Child Language Development node at Stellenbosch University, will host a South African Sign Language (SASL) dissemination event on 29 May 2026, aimed at advancing the inclusion of the South African deaf community in digital spaces and strengthening&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/south-african-sign-language-dissemination-event-promoting-inclusion-in-digital-spaces\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12452 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-about category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Strengthening Speech Corpus Development Skills at the University of Limpopo<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">14 May 2026 From 21-23 April 2026, ESCALATOR and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) facilitated a three-day workshop at the University of Limpopo, bringing together participants from Humanities and Computer Science backgrounds to explore speech corpus development, Digital Humanities (DH), and language resource creation for South African languages. The opening sessions, led&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/strengthening-speech-corpus-development-skills-at-the-university-of-limpopo\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12349 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news tag-afrikaans tag-hessp tag-jacques-van-der-elst-prize tag-language-resource-audit tag-prof-tobie-van-dyk tag-sadilar\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">SADiLaR\u2019s HESSP lead receives prestigious Jacques van der Elst Prize for 2025<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">28 April 2026 Prof. Tobie van Dyk, an applied linguist from North-West University and leader of the Higher Education Sector Support Programme (HESSP) in the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources (SADiLaR), has been awarded the Jacques van der Elst Prize by the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns (South African Academy for Science&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/sadilars-hessp-lead-receives-prestigious-jacques-van-der-elst-prize-for-2025\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12303 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">ESCALATOR at the AI4D African Language Lab Workshop<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">30 March 2026 SADiLaR\u2019s ESCALATOR programme had the privilege of joining a panel at the AI4D African Language Lab Workshop, held at the University of Pretoria on 25 March 2026. The panel discussion, titled \u201cBridging Research and Reality: The Content Pipeline\u201d, brought together diverse voices committed to making language technology work for under-resourced African languages.&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/escalator-at-the-ai4d-african-language-lab-workshop\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><li class=\"wp-block-post post-12296 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-blogs category-news tag-data-management tag-digital-humanities tag-digital-language-resources tag-language tag-linguistic-annotation tag-natural-language-processing tag-sadilar\">\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-post-title\">Bridging Language and Technology: Advancing NLP Skills at the University of Zululand<\/h4>\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt\"><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__excerpt\">25 March 2026 The University of Zululand recently played host to a dynamic and impactful two-day Corpus Creation and Linguistic Text Processing Tools Workshop, held at its KwaDlangezwa campus on 17\u201318 March 2026. Facilitated by SADiLaR\u2019s Project Manager and Unisa Node, Ms Marissa Griesel, under the ESCALATOR programme, the workshop brought together Computer Science students&hellip;<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-text\"><a class=\"wp-block-post-excerpt__more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/bridging-language-and-technology-advancing-nlp-skills-at-the-university-of-zululand\/\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<\/li><\/ul>\n\n<nav class=\"wp-block-query-pagination is-layout-flex wp-block-query-pagination-is-layout-flex\" aria-label=\"Pagination\">\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-query-pagination-numbers\"><span aria-current=\"page\" class=\"page-numbers current\">1<\/span>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-46-page=2\">2<\/a>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-46-page=3\">3<\/a>\n<span class=\"page-numbers dots\">&hellip;<\/span>\n<a class=\"page-numbers\" href=\"?query-46-page=10\">10<\/a><\/div>\n\n<a href=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045?query-46-page=2\" class=\"wp-block-query-pagination-next\">Next Page<\/a>\n<\/nav>\n\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9045"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9051,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9045\/revisions\/9051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sadilar.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}