Western Africa
Abibitumi Kasa Online Afrikan African Language Institute
Submitted by Akyeame_Kwame on Sun, 2008-04-20 23:56Online and Ghana based Afrikan language institute teaching Yoruba class, Twi class and Wolof class.
Unicode-Afrique
Submitted by donosborn on Sun, 2008-03-16 02:19Unicode-Afrique est un forum sur Yahoogroupes. Il existe pour : donner publicité aux projets en Afrique utilisant l'Unicode; discuter des questions et problèmes pratiques avec Unicode et les jeux de caractères pour les langues africaines; et partager des expériences utiles sur le développement et utilisation des polices unicodes pour les langues africaines. Cet e-groupe fait partie d'une "famille" de forums de discussion sur la rencontre des langues africaines et NTIC (les autres forums sont accessibles à la page portail "A12n," dont le lien se trouve au fond de cette page).
Corpora for African languages - An Crúbadán
Submitted by scannell on Thu, 2008-02-07 04:42The Crúbadán Project is devoted to creating basic language technology for minority languages and under-resourced languages using web-crawling and statistical techniques. As of early 2008 we have collected text corpora for 419 languages, including more than 125 African languages, and have used these to create open source spell checkers for more than 20 languages. Please contact Kevin Scannell (http://borel.slu.edu/) if you are interested in developing open source resources for other African languages using these data.
Janga Wolof
Submitted by jeloroc on Thu, 2007-11-29 05:23A blog dedicated the Wolof language and culture featuring mostly Wolof lessons but also includes other related content.
Automatic Diacritic Restoration for African Languages
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2007-10-23 12:16This is a demonstration system for a diacritic restoration method that is able to automatically restore diacritics on the basis of local graphemic context. It is based on the machine learning method of Memory-Based learning. We have applied the method to the African languages of Cilubà, Gĩkũyũ, Kĩkamba, Maa, Sesotho sa Leboa, Tshivenḓa and Yoruba.
You can find more information on this system in this paper
Authors:
Guy De Pauw: CNTS - Language Technology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, guy [dot] depauw [at] ua [dot] ac [dot] beGilles-Maurice de Schryver: African Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, gillesmaurice [dot] deschryver [at] ugent [dot] be
Peter Waiganjo Wagacha: School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, waiganjo [at] uonbi [dot] ac [dot] ke
The Educational Implications of Multilingualism for Cameroon and The Gambia
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Language and Education in Mali: A consideration of two approaches
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Sociolingo's Africa Blog
Submitted by Sociolingo on Tue, 2007-03-13 17:00A general blog about Africa with strengths in linguistics and culture.
Sociolingo's Mali Blog
Submitted by Sociolingo on Tue, 2007-03-13 16:58A general blog about Mali with strengths in linguistics and culture.
African Languages in Danger of Disappearing -- Interactive Atlas
Submitted by Gilles-Maurice on Sun, 2007-02-04 14:49Click here to use the interactive atlas.
Open Question: What about focusing our efforts on these disappearing languages before it's too late? What can we, as computational linguists, do; should we do something?
