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:

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Quick links

Afrikaanse SkryfGoed 2011	Autshumato
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About Us

On 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)
• Development (including development of sources and end-user applications & products)
• Commercialisation of products and services
• Maintenance of products and support to end users/clients

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);
• Proofing Tools, Computer-Assisted Language Learning Software, Machine Translation, and HLT Data; and
• Novel Approaches to Natural Language Processing.