CENTRE FOR TEXT TECHNOLOGY (CTexT®)Newsflash!Prof. Daan Wissing (Senior Researcher and expert in the field of phonetics and phonology) and Wikus Pienaar of CTexT® recently developed an interactive vowel chart for Afrikaans...read more [1]. Click on the below screenshot to view the vowel chart: Quick links
About UsOn 1 June 2004 the Centre for Text Technology(CTexT®) started functioning as a non-profit, self-supporting unit of the Research Focus Area: Languages and Literature in the South African Context in the Faculty of Arts at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). The staff at CTexT occupy themselves with a variety of research and development activities. A close interaction between such research and development activities is aspired towards. Research should, wherever possible, lead/contribute to product development, whereas all products are rooted in thorough research. The four main activities of CTexT involve the following:
• Research (including basic research, strategic research, applied research, and market research) Given the field of HLT and Computational Linguistics in South Africa, CTexT has three specific focal points:
• Resource-scarce languages (with specific focus on South African Languages); |
