AfLaT.org - Central Africa

CMUSphinx4 Speech recognition toolkit

Shadrack — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 09:18:19 +0000

URL:

https://cmusphinx.sourceforge.net/

Description:

This is one of the appropriate tools to work on if interested in building a speech recognizer, challenges though few include building a corpus for the dialect chosen.I attained 72% recognition on a set of isolated utterances in swahili dialect. If in need of assistance with the tool, Ill be glad to help.
Shadrack

Cilubà Part-of-Speech Tagger - Demo

Guy — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 09:55:12 +0000

This demo showcases a part-of-speech tagger for Cilubà. It retrieves the morpho-syntactic categories for words in a sentence.

Type in the text you want to tag
Example: Kiipàcìlà kàà kumpàlà kàà mukàndà eu ǹkwambulwisha eu yônso udi ulonga cilubà nè ukààdi mudbìdìje nè nsùùlakajilu wacì.

Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Guy — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 07:43:36 +0000

AfLaT2011, the Third Workshop on African Language Technology, was organized as a breakout session of the AGIS11 conference (Action Week for Global Information Sharing) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It marked the first time an AfLaT workshop took place on the African continent. AfLaT2011 featured ten presentations on a variety of topics and languages.
We want to thank the presenters and participants for their contributions to the workshop, as well as the organizers of AGIS11 to allow us to collocate the AfLaT workshop with their wonderful conference.

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Guy — Thu, 05 Aug 2010 07:33:29 +0000

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?
Justus Roux

Martin Benjamin and Kevin Scannell on localisation and Central African languages

Guy — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 05:45:47 +0000

URL:

https://www.voxhumanitatis.org/content/martin-benjamin-and-kevin-scannell-localisation-and-central-african-languages

Description:

Podcast on localisation and Central African languages

Newsletter October 2009

Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:48:37 +0000

Dear AfLaT member,

we would like to draw your attention to some recent highlights in African Language Technology.

(1) Google announced the availability of their Swahili Machine Translation system
https://aflat.org/?q=node/346

(2) CALL FOR ABSTRACTS for the National Human Language Technology Network Day 2010
https://aflat.org/?q=node/345

(3) MURI Call for White Papers: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"
https://aflat.org/?q=node/347

Also several new publications and links have recently been added. We hope to see you soon at https://AfLaT.org!

with kind regards

the AfLaT team

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers

Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:14:52 +0000

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers, DUE Dec 11

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Call for White Papers

DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"

Lingala Diacritic Correction

Guy — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:45:48 +0000

URL:

https://lingala.svn.sourceforge.net/

Description:

The problem with using web texts for many languages is that many people do not have the ability to enter diacritics or characters from extended
character sets from their keyboard, and so they simply leave them off (and so Lingala "likɔngá" becomes "likonga"), or use incorrect diacritics
(e.g. using acute/grave in place of the macron in Hawaiian, Maori, etc.). Information is usually lost in this conversion, and indeed most languages
that use diacritics have many pairs of words that differ only in diacritical marks; these distinctions are lost when texts are written in plain ASCII.
The aim of charlifter is to undo this lossy conversion, and "lift" the text back to its proper form.

Web Site Flore

Enguehard — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:52:45 +0000

URL:

https://www.sciences.univ-nantes.fr/info/perso/permanents/enguehard/flore/

Description:

This web site present the name of African trees in different languages.
Today there are 375 names, 17 languages.
The language of communication is French, but browing is very simple.

Unicode-Afrique

donosborn — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 01:19:48 +0000

URL:

https://fr.groups.yahoo.com/group/Unicode-Afrique/

Description:

Unicode-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).

AfLaT.org - Central Africa

CMUSphinx4 Speech recognition toolkit

Cilubà Part-of-Speech Tagger - Demo

Third Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2011) - Report

Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010) - Report

Invited Talk: Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?

Martin Benjamin and Kevin Scannell on localisation and Central African languages

Newsletter October 2009

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers

Funding opportunity: MURI Call for White Papers, DUE Dec 11

BROAD AGENCY ANNOUNCEMENT (BAA)

Call for White Papers DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI) topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"

Lingala Diacritic Correction

Web Site Flore

Unicode-Afrique

Call for White Papers

DEADLINE: Dec. 11, 2009

Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI)

topic # 25: "Structured Modeling for Low-Density Languages"