Grover, ASVan Huyssteen, GBPretorius, MW2010-07-132010-07-132010-05Grover, AS, Van Huyssteen, GB and Pretorius, MW. South African human language technologies audit. 2010. 7th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 19-21 May 2010, Valetta, Malta, pp 2847-28502-29517408-6-7http://hdl.handle.net/10204/40717th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. 19-21 May 2010, Valetta, MaltaHuman 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 on the South African HLT landscape across the country’s eleven official languages. The process and the instruments employed in conducting the audit are described and an overview of the various complementary approaches used in the results’ analysis is provided. The authors find that a number of HLT language resources (LRs) are available in SA but they are of a very basic and exploratory nature. Lessons learnt in conducting a technology audit in a young and multilingual context are also discussed.enHuman language technologiesDigital divideLanguage resourcesTechnology auditLanguage resourcesSouth Africa's eleven official languagesConference PresentationGrover, A., Van Huyssteen, G., & Pretorius, M. (2010). South African human language technologies audit. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4071Grover, AS, GB Van Huyssteen, and MW Pretorius. "South African human language technologies audit." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4071Grover A, Van Huyssteen G, Pretorius M, South African human language technologies audit; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4071 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Grover, AS AU - Van Huyssteen, GB AU - Pretorius, MW AB - 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 on the South African HLT landscape across the country’s eleven official languages. The process and the instruments employed in conducting the audit are described and an overview of the various complementary approaches used in the results’ analysis is provided. The authors find that a number of HLT language resources (LRs) are available in SA but they are of a very basic and exploratory nature. Lessons learnt in conducting a technology audit in a young and multilingual context are also discussed. DA - 2010-05 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR KW - Human language technologies KW - Digital divide KW - Language resources KW - Technology audit KW - Language resources KW - South Africa's eleven official languages LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2010 SM - 2-29517408-6-7 T1 - South African human language technologies audit TI - South African human language technologies audit UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4071 ER -