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Afrikaans and Dutch as closely-related languages: A comparison to West Germanic languages and Dutch dialects

Author: Heeringa, W ; De Wet, Febe ; Van Huyssteen, GB Date: Jul 2015 Following Den Besten’s (2009) desiderata for historical linguistics of Afrikaans, this article aims to contribute some modern evidence to the debate regarding the founding dialects of Afrikaans. From an applied perspective (i.e. human language ... Read more
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
Developing speech resources from parliamentary data for South African english

Author: De Wet, Febe ; Badenhorst, J ; Modipa, T Date: May 2016 The official languages of South Africa can still be classified as under-resourced with respect to the speech resources that are required for technology development. Harvesting speech data from existing sources is one means to create additional ... Read more
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Analysing the development trends in resource availability in all South African languages

Author: Moors, Carmen ; Wilken, Ilana ; Calteaux, Karen V ; Gumede, Tebogo Date: Sep 2018 Almost 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
Human Language Technology Audit 2018: Design Considerations and Methodology

Author: Wilken, Ilana ; Gumede, Tebogo ; Moors, Carmen ; Calteaux, Karen V Date: Dec 2018 Technology 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
A smartphone-based ASR data collection tool for under-resourced languages

Author: De Vries, NJ ; Davel, MH ; Badenhorst, J ; Basson, WD ; De Wet, Febe ; Barnard, E ; De Waal, A Date: Jan 2014 Acoustic data collection for automatic speech recognition (ASR) purposes is a particularly challenging task when working with under resourced languages, many of which are found in the developing world. We provide a brief overview of related ... Read more

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