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| Title | The South African Human Language Technologies Audit |
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| Authors | Aditi Sharma Grover, Gerhard B. van Huyssteen and Marthinus W. Pretorius |
| Abstract | 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. We present our 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. We 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. |
| Topics | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Other |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SHARMAGROVER10.454, author = {Aditi Sharma Grover and Gerhard B. van Huyssteen and Marthinus W. Pretorius}, title = {The South African Human Language Technologies Audit}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Mike Rosner and Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |