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CENTRE FOR TEXT TECHNOLOGY (CTexT®)
Research outputs

 Publications 

  • GROVER, A.S., VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PRETORIUS, M.W.  2011a.  The South African Human Language Technology Audit.  Language Resources and Evaluation (Springer).

  • WISSING, D.P.  2011.  Ontronding in Afrikaans.  Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2011.  Ontronding in Kharkamsafrikaans.  LitNet Akademies, 8(2): 309-330.

  • OOSTHUIZEN, N., PUTTKAMMER, M.J. & SCHLEMMER, M.  2010  Improving Orthographic Transcriptions of Speech Corpora.  In G. De Pauw, G-M. de Schryver & H.J. Groenewald (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010). Valletta, Malta: European Languages Resource Association.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J. & DU PLOOY, L.  2010.  Processing Parallel Text Corpora for Three South African Language Pairs in the Autshumato Project.  In G. De Pauw, G-M. de Schryver & H.J. Groenewald (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010). Valletta, Malta: European Languages Resource Association.

  • GROVER, A.S., VAN HYSSTEEN, G.B. & PRETORIUS, M.W.  2010.  An HLT profile of the official South African languages.  In G. De Pauw, G-M. de Schryver & H.J. Groenewald (Eds.), Proceedings of the Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010). Valletta, Malta: European Languages Resource Association.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J.  2009.  Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana. In Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages - AfLaT 2009.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J. & FOURIE, W.  2009.  Introducing the Autshumato Integrated Translation Environment.  In the proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2009. Barcelona, Spain.

  • WISSING, D.P.  & BARNARD, E.  2009.  Vowel variation in Southern Sotho: an acoustic investigation.  Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 

  • •VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PILON, S. 2009. Rule-based Conversion of closely-related Languages: A Dutch-to-Afrikaans Convertor. In: Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa. 30 November – 1 December. Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch.

  • DAELEMANS, W., GROENEWALD, H.J. & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. 2009. Prototype-based Active Learning for Lemmatization. In: Angelova, G, Bontcheva, K, Mitkov, R, Nikolov, N & Nikolov, N. (eds.). Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2009. ISSN: 1313-8502. 14-16 September 2009. Borovets, Bulgaria. pp 65-70.

  • As samesteller saam met ander outeurs gelys: VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns. (comp.). 2009. Afrikaanse woordelys en spelreëls. [Afrikaans wordlist and spelling rules]. Tenth edition. Cape Town: Pharos Dictionaries.

  • WISSING, D.  2009.  Oor die onstabiele klemgedrag van reduplikasies in Afrikaans. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.

  • WISSING, D.  2009.  Tone in Southern Sotho. Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies.

  • WISSING, D.  2009.  Die status van /u/, ʼn nuwe Afrikaanse vokaal?. Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe.

  • WISSING, D.  2009.  Vowel raising and coarticulation in Southern Sotho. Journal of Southern African Languages.

  • ROUX, J.C.  2009.  Implementing high level Xhosa text-to-speech synthesis in mobile learning systems.  In the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on African Linguistics, Cologne, Germany, Rudiger Koppe Verlag.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J. & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2008.  Outomatiese Lemma-identifisering vir Afrikaans.  Literator, 29(1): 1-27.

  • PILON, S.  2008.  ’n Woordsoortetiketteerder vir Afrikaans.  Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies. 

  • PILON, S.  2008.  Die ontwikkeling van ’n fleksievormgenereerder vir Afrikaans.  Literator.

  • PILON, S., PUTTKAMMER, M.J. & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2008.  Die ontwikkeling van 'n woordafbreker en 'n komposita-analiseerder vir Afrikaans. Literator.

  • KOTZE, G.  2008.  Ontwikkeling van 'n Afrikaanse woordnet:  metodologie en integrasie. Literator.

  • JANKE, U.  2008.  Besigheidsprosesbestuur in mensetaaltegnologiehulpbronontwikkeling: 'n gevallestudie. Literator.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2008.  Bilingual word list: computational linguistics / Tweetalige woordelys: rekenaarlinguistiek. Literator.

  • GOENEWALD, H.J. & VAN ROOYEN, M. 2008. Automatic Homophone Disambiguation for Afrikaans. In Proceedings: PRASA 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Accelerating the Annotation of Lexical Data for Less-Resourced Languages. (In Proceedings of the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007). p. 1505-1508.)

  • GROENEWALD, H.J., VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Evaluating Wrapped Progressive Sampling for Automatic Algorithmic Parameter Optimisation. (In Angelova, G., Bontcheva, K., Mitkov, R., & Nikolov, N., eds. Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria. p. 251-255.)

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B., PUTTKAMMER, M.J., PILON, S., & GROENEWALD, H.J.  2007.  Using Machine Learning to Annotate Data for NLP Tasks Semi-Automatically. (In Orasan, C. & Kuebler, S., eds. Proceedings of International Workshop on Computer-Aided Language Processing, Borovets, Bulgaria.)

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Accelerating the Annotation of Lexical Data for Less-Resourced Languages.  Presentation delivered at the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), Antwerp.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & WISSING, D.P.  2007.  Datagebaseerde Aspekte van Afrikaanse Reduplikasies.  Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 25(3): 419-439.

  • COETZEE, A.W. & WISSING, D.P.  2007.  Global and local durational properties in three varieties of South African English.  Linguistic Review, 24:263-289.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2007  Gevorderde akoestiese korrelante van Afrikaanse klemtoon.  Southern African Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, 25.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2007.  Basiese akoestiese korrelante  van klemtoon in Afrikaans.  Southern African Linguistics and applied Language Studies, 25:441-458.

  • MUNRO, M & WISSING, D.P. 2007.  Testing the use of Lessac's Tonal NRG as a voice building tool for female students at a South African University. Voice and Speech Review.

 

Conference papers

  • DAELEMANS, W., SNYMAN, D.P. & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2011.  Automatic genre classification for resource scarce languages.  Presented at: The 22nd Annual International Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa 2011.

  • DE WET, F., DE WAAL, A., & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2011.  Developing a broadband automatic speech recognition system for Afrikaans.  In proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011).

  • GRIESEL, M. & FOURIE, W.  2011.  Mobile Short Message Filtering for the South African Context.  Presented at: The 22nd Annual International Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa 2011.

  • NDINGA-KOUMBA-BINZA, H.S. & ROUX, J.C.  2011. Perceived vowel duration in civili: minimal pairs and the effect of post vocalic voicing.  Poster presented at: The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Science (Hong Kong).

  • NDINGA-KOUMBA-BINZA, H.S. 2011. Interaction of variables in the civili vowel.  Presented at: The 17th International Congress of Phonetic Science (Hong Kong).

  • SHARMA GROVER, A., VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PRETORIUS, M.W.  2011.  A technology audit: Human language technologies (HLT) R&D in South Africa.  In proceedings of the Portland International Conference on Management of Engineering and Technology (PICMET 2011).

  • OOSTHUIZEN, N., PUTTKAMMER, M.J. & SCHLEMMER, M.  2010  Improving Orthographic Transcriptions of Speech Corpora.  Presented at:  AfLaT 2010, Valletta, Malta.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J. & DU PLOOY, L.  2010.  Processing Parallel Text Corpora for Three South African Language Pairs in the Autshumato Project.  Presented at: AfLat 2010, Valletta, Malta.

  • GROVER, A.S., VAN HYSSTEEN, G.B. & PRETORIUS, M.W.  2010.  An HLT profile of the official South African languages.  Presented at: AfLat 2010, Valletta, Malta.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J.  2009.  Using Technology Transfer to Advance Automatic Lemmatisation for Setswana. In Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages - AfLaT 2009.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J. & FOURIE, W.  2009.  Introducing the Autshumato Integrated Translation Environment.  In the proceedings of the 13th Annual Conference of the European Association for Machine Translation (EAMT) 2009. Barcelona, Spain.

  • JANKE, U.  2009.  Autshumato project.  African Academy of Languages (ACALAN).  Johannesburg.

  • ROUX, J.C. 2009.  An African perspective on language resources and technologies.  FlaReNet Launching Event: European Language Resources and Technology Forum.  Wenen.

  • ROUX, J.C. 2009.  Developing mobile literacy training and language learning systems in an African context.  Cyber Network for Learning Languages:  UNESCO International Expert Group Meeting.  Beijing.

  • ROUX, J.C. 2009.  Implementing high level Xhosa text-to-speech synthesis on mobile learning systems.  6th International Conference on  African Linguistics (WOCAL 6).  Keulen, Germany.

  • ROUX, J.C. 2009.  UNESCO: Cyber Network for Language Teaching.  African Academy of Languages (ACALAN). Johannesburg.

  • DAELEMANS, W., GROENEWALD, H.J. & VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B.  2009.  Prototype-based Active Learning for Lemmatization.  RANLP 2009. Borovets, Bulgaria.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PILON, S. 2009. Rule-based Conversion of closely-related Languages: A Dutch-to-Afrikaans Converter. In: Proceedings of the 2009 Conference of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa. 30 November – 1 December. Stellenbosch: University of Stellenbosch.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2009.  Aspect of tone in Southern Sotho.  Presented at Research Group: Phonetics and Phonology, Department of Linguistics, Ann Arbor, USA.

  • OOSTHUIZEN, N., VAN ROOYEN, M. & VAN ZYL, C.  2008.  The Systematic Collection of Speech Corpora for all Eleven Official Languages.  Presentation delivered at the International Workshop on Spoken Languages Technologies for Under-resourced Languages (SLTU), Hanoi, Vietnam.

  • PIENAAR, J.A. & TYERS, F.  2008.  Extracting bilingual word pairs from Wikipedia.  Presentation delivered at the 6th Language Resources and Evaluation Conference 2008 (LREC), Marrakech, Morocco.

  • GOENEWALD, H.J. & VAN ROOYEN, M. 2008. Automatic Homophone Disambiguation for Afrikaans. Presented at: PRASA 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • MCKELLAR, C.A. 2008. A Readability Formula for Afrikaans. Presented as poster at: PRASA 2008, Cape Town, South Africa.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J., VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Evaluating Wrapped Progressive Sampling for Automatic Algorithmic Parameter Optimisation.  Presentation delivered at the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

  • GROENEWALD, H.J., VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Automatic Parameter Selection for Effective Afrikaans Lemmatisation. Presentation delivered at the Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing (RANLP) 2007, Borovets, Bulgaria.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B., PUTTKAMMER, M.J., PILON, S., & GROENEWALD, H.J.  2007.  Using Machine Learning to Annotate Data for NLP Tasks Semi-Automatically.  Presentation delivered at the International Workshop on Computer-Aided Language Processing, Borovets, Bulgaria.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & GROENEWALD, H.  2007.  Heroorweging van Fleksie in Afrikaans.  Voordrag gelewer by LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, Noordwes-Universiteit, Potchefstroomkampus, Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & GROENEWALD, H.  2007.  Requirements for Machine-Aided translation Tools.  Presentation delivered at LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & GROENEWALD, H.  2007.  Feature Selection and Parameter Optimisation for Effective Afrikaans Lemmatisation.  Presentation delivered at the International 17th Meeting of Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands (CLIN) 2007, University of Leuven, Leuven.

  • PILON, S.  2007.  ʼn Fleksievormgenereerder.  Voordrag gelewer by LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, Noordwes-Universiteit, Potchefstroomkampus, Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika.

  • PILON, S. & PIENAAR, J.A.  2007.  MT for English-isiZulu/Afrikaans.  Presentation delivered at LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Accelerating the Annotation of Lexical Data for Less-Resourced Languages.  Presentation delivered at the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), Antwerp.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B. & PUTTKAMMER, M.J.  2007.  Lexicon Creation and Management: TurboAnnotate.  Presentation delivered at LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

  • VAN HUYSSTEEN, G.B., PUTTKAMMER, M.J. & SCHLEMMER, M.  2007.  Developing Web-Based Word-Translators.  Presentation delivered at LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, North-West University, Potchefstroom campus, Potchefstroom, South Africa.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2007.  Nadruk in Afrikaans: akoestiese kenmerke en metodologiese oorwegings by die vasstellings daarvan.  Voordrag gelewer by LVSA/SAALA/SAVTO 2007, Noordwes-Universiteit, Potchefstroomkampus, Potchefstroom, Suid-Afrika.

  • WISSING, D.P.  2007.  More on acoustic correlates of stress.  Presentation delivered at the 8th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2007), Antwerp.