Human language technology tools for indigenous South African languages and their potential use.
Human language technology (HLT) contributes to the development of languages by providing various avenues through which languages can be interrogated. Through HLT, diverse questions can be raised and answered scientifically and objectively. In the context of South African indigenous languages (SAIL),...
| Publicado en: | Literator Vol. 46; no. 1; pp. 1 - 12 |
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African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD
2025
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=hlh&AN=190715254&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: hlh uiTerm: 190715254 longDbName: Humanities International Complete uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 02582279 G1C jtl: Literator issn: 02582279 maglogo: N pubinfo: dt: 2025 vid: 46 iid: 1 pid: 56831 pub: African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD artinfo: ui: 190715254 10.4102/lit.v46i1.2049 ppf: 1 ppct: 11 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 2.8MB tig: atl: Human language technology tools for indigenous South African languages and their potential use. aug: au: Mlambo, Respect Matfunjwa, Muzi affil: South African Centre for Digital Language Resources, Faculty of Humanities, North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa sug: keyword: Google Translate human language technology isiZulu.net morphological analyser morphological decomposer part-of-speech tagger ZulMorph ab: Human language technology (HLT) contributes to the development of languages by providing various avenues through which languages can be interrogated. Through HLT, diverse questions can be raised and answered scientifically and objectively. In the context of South African indigenous languages (SAIL), several HLT tools support these languages. However, it seems that some language users are unaware of the availability and capabilities of these tools, which contributes to their underutilisation. This study aims to identify and describe briefly some of the HLT tools that support and analyse SAIL. It presents an overview of the open access HLT tools, namely part-of-speech (POS) taggers, morphological decomposers (MDs), morphological analysers (MAs), isiZulu.net, ZulMorph and Google Translate (GT). These tools are crucial in analysing and understanding SAIL, as well as for advancing these languages in the field of HLT. In this study, the researchers anticipate that by raising awareness of the existence of these tools, more users of indigenous languages will be eager to use them. Contribution: This study fills the practical gap in the use of HLT to perform linguistic functions for SAIL. It seems that there is underutilisation of existing HLT tools for SAIL, which might be attributed to language users being unaware of these tools. Therefore, the study aims to identify and describe some HLT tools that support and analyse SAIL. It presents an overview of the open access HLT tools, namely POS taggers, MD, MA, isiZulu.net, ZulMorph and GT. The researchers intend to demonstrate the use of these tools and to raise awareness about their existence. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: Y custom: Copyright of Literator is the property of African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites without the copyright holder's express written permission. Additionally, content may not be used with any artificial intelligence tools or machine learning technologies. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. item: Literator holder: African Online Scientific Information System PTY LTD dt: @attributes: year: 2025 holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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