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Developing a broadband automatic speech recognition system for Afrikaans

Author: De Wet, Febe ; De Waal, A ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Aug 2011 Afrikaans is one of the eleven official languages of South Africa. It is classified as an under-resourced language. No annotated broadband speech corpora currently exist for Afrikaans. This article reports on the development of speech resources ... Read more
HLT profile of the official South African languages

Author: Grover, AS ; Van Huyssteen, GB ; Pretorius, MW Date: May 2010 Human Language technologies (HLT) have been identified as a priority area by South African government to enable its eleven official languages technologically. We present the results of a technology audit for the South African HLT landscape, ... Read more
Learning rules and categorization networks for language standardization

Author: Van Huyssteen, GB ; Davel, MH Date: Jun 2010 In this research, the authors use machine learning techniques to provide solutions for descriptive linguists in the domain of language standardization. With regard to the personal name construction in Afrikaans, the authors perform function ... Read more
Part-of-speech effects on text-to-speech synthesis

Author: Schlunz, Georg I ; Barnard, E ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Nov 2010 One of the goals of text-to-speech (TTS) systems is to produce natural-sounding synthesised speech. Towards this end various natural language processing (NLP) tasks are performed to model the prosodic aspects of the TTS voice. One of the ... Read more
Prototype-based active learning for lemmatization

Author: Daelemans, W ; Groenewald, HJ ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Sep 2009 Annotation of training data for machine learning is often a laborious and costly process. In Active Learning (AL), criteria are investigated that allow ordering the unannotated data in such a way that those instances potentially contributing ... Read more
(Re)defining component structures in morphological constructions: a cognitive grammar perspective

Author: Van Huyssteen, GB Date: 2010 Overall, this article aims to (re)define the component structures in Afrikaans morphological constructions from a cognitive grammar perspective. The author will not pay attention to general issues in cognitive grammar, such as the status of ... Read more
Rule-based conversion of closely-related languages: a Dutch-to-Afrikaans convertor

Author: Van Huyssteen, GB ; Pilon, S Date: Nov 2009 For fast-tracking the development of resources for resource-scarce languages, one could transfer existing technologies from one language to another well-sourced, closely-related language. In this contribution, the authors describe the development ... Read more
South African human language technologies audit

Author: Grover, AS ; Van Huyssteen, GB ; Pretorius, MW Date: May 2010 Human language technologies (HLT) can play a vital role in bridging the digital divide and thus the HLT field has been recognised as a priority area by the South African government. The authors present the work on conducting a technology audit ... Read more
South African human language technology audit

Author: Grover, AS ; Van Huyssteen, GB ; Pretorius, MW Date: Jun 2011 Human language technology (HLT) has been identified as a priority area by the South African government. However, despite efforts by government and the research and development (R&D) community, South Africa has not yet been able to maximise ... Read more
Speech technology for information access: a South African case study

Author: Barnard, E ; Davel, MH ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Mar 2010 Telephone-based information access has the potential to deliver a significant positive impact in the developing world. We discuss some of the most important issues that must be addressed in order to realize this potential, including matters ... Read more
Technology audit: the state of human language technologies (HLT) R&D in South Africa

Author: Grover, AS ; Van Huyssteen, GB ; Pretorius, MW Date: Jul 2011 South Africa (SA) epitomises diversity, with the nation boasting eleven official languages. The field of human language technology (HLT) can play a vital role in bridging the digital divide and thus has been recognised as a priority area by ... Read more

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