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Guy De Pauw Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Peter W. Wagacha and all AfLaT members

Guy De Pauw Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Peter W. Wagacha and all AfLaT members. Need for networking. Language technology researchers for African languages over the continent face typical, similar problems: Complex morphology Noun classes Encoding Tonality Resource-scarceness

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Guy De Pauw Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Peter W. Wagacha and all AfLaT members

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  1. Guy De Pauw Gilles-Maurice de Schryver Peter W. Wagacha and all AfLaT members

  2. Need for networking • Language technology researchers for African languages over the continent face typical, similar problems: • Complex morphology • Noun classes • Encoding • Tonality • Resource-scarceness • But no central point to access information (e.g. links, forums, publications) • 1 central resource point can improve visibility of African Language Technology (googlability)

  3. Need for networking • Some initiatives already, but either specialized in topical (bisharat) or regional sense (alt-i) or closed infrastructure

  4. AfLaT.org • Since 2007 • Community-driven portal dedicated to language (and speech) technology for African languages • Share information (own work, interesting links to other people’s works) • Backbone = drupal content management system

  5. Structure • Different types of content on AfLaT: • AfLaT page (static information, internal to AfLaT, describing a project, resource in detail or demo) • Research Group (static information, specific for research groups) • Discussion forum • WebLink (link to external resource) • Bibliographic item (bibliographic details) • Newsletter But many more content types possible

  6. Google Ranking • Very favorable

  7. Demos • Diacritic restoration for Ciluba, Gikuyu, Kikamba, Maa, Northern Sotho, Venda and Yoruba • Part-of-Speech tagging of Swahili and Northern Sotho • Morphological Analysis of Swahili

  8. Also

  9. http://aflat.orghttp://africanlanguagetechnology.com and http://africanlanguages.org EACL workshop

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