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Overview: Teaching and Training in South Africa

Overview: Teaching and Training in South Africa. 25 November 2008; Cape Town. Introduction: Overview. Under-graduate NWU UFS Post-graduate UFS UP UNISA Limpopo NWU. 25 November 2008; Cape Town. Pilon & Prinsloo. Under-graduate Teaching: NWU. BA Language Technology

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Overview: Teaching and Training in South Africa

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  1. Overview: Teaching and Training in South Africa 25 November 2008; Cape Town

  2. Introduction: Overview • Under-graduate • NWU • UFS • Post-graduate • UFS • UP • UNISA • Limpopo • NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  3. Under-graduate Teaching: NWU • BA Language Technology • Only programme of its kind in SA • Equips students to: • Fill positions in emergent SA HLT industry • Continue with post-graduate studies • Project-based 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  4. Under-graduate Teaching: NWU • Basic core of modules • Langauges • Computer Programming • Mathematics • General formative modules • Languages • First language: Afrikaans, English, Setswana • Foreign language: Setswana, isiZulu, German, French 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  5. Under-graduate Teaching: NWU • Language Technology: Introduction • Language Technology: Linguistics for Language Technology Students • Introduction to NLP • Language Technology: Speech Applications • Language Technology: Text Applications • Language technology: Internship • Advanced NLP • Language Technology Project 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  6. Under-graduate Teaching: NWU • Electronic Engineering students • Project in final year • CTexT • Etienne Barnard 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  7. Under-graduate Teaching: UFS • Two courses as part of “Language Practitioners” programme • Introduction to Speech and Language Technology • Technology in Translation • Has an entire HLT course “on the books” • Currently dormant • Could be activated if need arises 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  8. Under-graduate Teaching: Other • University of Pretoria • Some lectures as part of an AI course 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  9. Post-graduate Teaching: Introduction • University websites quite uninformative • Obtained information from individuals • No such modules at Wits • No such modules at UJ • Not enough student interest 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  10. Post-graduate Teaching: UFS • “Language Practitioners” Honours programme • Six fields of specialisation • One of them: Language Technology • Focus on • Computer Assisted Translation • Application • Localization 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  11. Post-graduate Teaching: UP • LEX 852 HLT in Lexicography and NLP • Introduction to core aspects of HLT in lexicography • Introduction to NLP • Focusing on the compilation and manipulation of corpora • Building and validation of spellcheckers • Use, compilation and monitoring of usage of paper, electronic and internet dictionaries 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  12. Post-graduate Teaching: UP • TRL 711 HLT in Translation Practice • Focus on the use and application of HLT in translation practice • Localization, internationalization and globalization. • Translation and language technology • Introduction to the use of Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools – translation memory (TM) • Terminology management • Machine translation (MT) 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  13. Post-graduate Teaching: UP • TRL 711 HLT in Translation Practice II • Use of electronic text corpora as translation resource. • Translator's aid and translators' tools • Mining for translation equivalents • Obtaining translation equivalents for terms that do not exist in the target language by utilizing electronic resources • Using the Internet as 'consulting expert', etc. 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  14. Post-graduate Teaching: UNISA • COS461J : Natural Language Processing • Introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of NLP • Focus on fundamental algorithms, whether logical or statistical, on practical applications, and on scientific evaluation related to the processing of words and syntax • Focus on the processing of natural language, not on speech • Assumed background: Only for students who majored in computer science and have a solid working knowledge of automata and formal language theory • A background in formal logic, in particular first order logic, will also be of value 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  15. Post-graduate Teaching: UNISA • COS461J : Natural Language Processing II • Abbreviated syllabus:  • Regarding words: regular expressions and automata; morphology and finite-state transducers; n-grams; part-of-speech tagging • Regarding syntax: formal grammars; parsing • Regarding semantics:  representation of meaning; lexical and computational lexical semantics.  • Regarding applications: question answering; summarisation 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  16. Post-graduate Teaching: Limpopo • COSC 702 Speech Technology • Introduction to Speech Technology • ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) • TTS (Text to Speech) • Dialogue systems  Masters Continuation • Part of Speech Technology Workshop 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  17. Post-graduate Teaching: NWU • Taal, Teks en Tegnologie (Language, Text and Technology) • Part of Afrikaans & Dutch Honnours programme - aimed at Linguistic students • Three modules from BA Language Technology • Introduction to NLP • Speech Applications • Text Applications 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

  18. Thank you • Dankie • Re a leboga • Siyabonga 25 November 2008; Cape Town Pilon & Prinsloo

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