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| Title | The South African Human Language Technologies Audit |
|---|---|
| Authors | Aditi Sharma Grover and Gerhard B. van Huyssteen |
| Abstract | Human language technologies (HLT) can play a vital role in bridging the digitaldivide and thus the HLT field has been recognised as a priority area by theSouth African government. We present our work on conducting a technology auditon the South African HLT landscape across the country’s eleven officiallanguages. The process and the instruments employed in conducting the audit aredescribed and an overview of the various complementary approaches used in theresults’ analysis is provided. We find that a number of HLT languageresources (LRs) are available in SA but they are of a very basic andexploratory nature. Lessons learnt in conducting a technology audit in a youngand multilingual context are also discussed. |
| Language | Other |
| Topics | LR national/international projects, organizational/policy issues, LR Infrastructures and Architectures, Other |
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The South African Human Language Technologies Audit |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{SHARMAGROVER10.454, author = {Aditi Sharma Grover and Gerhard B. van Huyssteen}, title = {The South African Human Language Technologies Audit}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |