Author:Sharma Grover, A; Nieman, A; Van Huyssteen, GB; Roux, JCDate:May 2012The management of language resources requires several legal aspects to be taken into consideration. In this paper we discuss a number of these aspects which lead towards the formation of a legal framework for a language resources management ...Read more
Author:Davel, M; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006When developing a language resource, there is generally a trade-off between the amount of effort invested in the resource creation process and the quality of the resulting resource. We (authors) argue that, in the developing world with its ...Read more
Author:Grover, AS; Van Huyssteen, GB; Pretorius, MWDate:May 2010Human 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
Author:Moors, Carmen; Wilken, Ilana; Calteaux, Karen V; Gumede, TebogoDate:Sep 2018Almost a decade has passed since the first audit on the state of HLT in South Africa was published in 2009. An increase in HLT R&D in South Africa since then, as well as developments in language resource management in the country surfaced the ...Read more
Author:Wilken, Ilana; Gumede, Tebogo; Moors, Carmen; Calteaux, Karen VDate:Dec 2018Technology audits can play a significant role in surfacing information which can be used by researchers, policymakers and funders alike to build a country’s research and development system of innovation towards increasing its competitiveness, ...Read more
Author:Sharma Grover, A; Calteaux, Karen V; Van Huyssteen, G; Pretorius, MDate:Oct 2010South Africa is one of the few countries in the world that boasts a large number of official languages. Due to the efforts of the government and the local research and development (R&D) community all the official languages are enabled with ...Read more
Author:Grover, AS; Van Huyssteen, GB; Pretorius, MWDate:May 2010Human 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
Author:Grover, AS; Van Huyssteen, GB; Pretorius, MWDate:Jun 2011Human 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
Author:Ronald, K; Barnard, EDate:Nov 2006Statistical machine translation techniques offer great promise for the development of automatic translation systems. However, the realization of this potential requires the availability of significant amounts of parallel bilingual texts. This ...Read more