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 …

In this paper we introduce the Kurdish BLARK (Basic Language Resource Kit). The original
BLARK has not considered multi-dialect characteristics and generally has targeted …

The biggest challenges we face in developing LR and LT for Faroese is the lack of existing
resources. A few resources already exist for Faroese, but many of them are either of …

This paper introduces the UNL framework as a collaborative framework that encourages and
promotes the participation of linguists and non-linguists in the development of an integral …

The aim of this work is to present a set of novel language resources in Faroese suitable for
the field of Automatic Speech Recognition including: an ASR corpus comprised of 109 hours …

When addressing a topic linking African languages and human language technologies
(HLT), it has to be understood that various types of relation-ships come into play. First, the …

The technological development and the advanced growing of Arabic Natural Language
Processing (ANLP) field offer advanced applications and lead to a particular interest in …

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 main aim of this study is the computational syntactic analysis of the Setswana simple
sentence, using Lexical Functional Grammar (LFG) as framework and XLE as the associated …

Setswana is an agglutinative language where prefixes and suffixes are extensively used in
the formation of words. Words such as verbs, pronouns, adjectives and so on, which have a …