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06/26/2023
Integrating Bidirectional Long Short-Term Memory with Subword Embedding for Authorship Attribution
The problem of unveiling the author of a given text document from multip...
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06/12/2023
Izindaba-Tindzaba: Machine learning news categorisation for Long and Short Text for isiZulu and Siswati
Local/Native South African languages are classified as low-resource lang...
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06/12/2023
Textual Augmentation Techniques Applied to Low Resource Machine Translation: Case of Swahili
In this work we investigate the impact of applying textual data augmenta...
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05/23/2023
MasakhaPOS: Part-of-Speech Tagging for Typologically Diverse African Languages
In this paper, we present MasakhaPOS, the largest part-of-speech (POS) d...
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04/08/2023
MphayaNER: Named Entity Recognition for Tshivenda
Named Entity Recognition (NER) plays a vital role in various Natural Lan...
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03/07/2023
Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora
This paper introduces two multilingual government themed corpora in vari...
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11/13/2022
Conversational Pattern Mining using Motif Detection
The subject of conversational mining has become of great interest recent...
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11/01/2022
Reinforcement Learning in Education: A Multi-Armed Bandit Approach
Advances in reinforcement learning research have demonstrated the ways i...
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10/16/2022
A Framework for Undergraduate Data Collection Strategies for Student Support Recommendation Systems in Higher Education
Understanding which student support strategies mitigate dropout and impr...
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10/16/2022
Comparing Synthetic Tabular Data Generation Between a Probabilistic Model and a Deep Learning Model for Education Use Cases
The ability to generate synthetic data has a variety of use cases across...
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05/04/2022
Semi-supervised learning approaches for predicting South African political sentiment for local government elections
This study aims to understand the South African political context by ana...
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11/11/2021
Training Cross-Lingual embeddings for Setswana and Sepedi
African languages still lag in the advances of Natural Language Processi...
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08/10/2021
An empirical investigation into audio pipeline approaches for classifying bird species
This paper is an investigation into aspects of an audio classification p...
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08/06/2021
Is it Fake? News Disinformation Detection on South African News Websites
Disinformation through fake news is an ongoing problem in our society an...
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06/18/2021
Towards Financial Sentiment Analysis in a South African Landscape
Sentiment analysis as a sub-field of natural language processing has rec...
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04/06/2021
AI4D – African Language Program
Advances in speech and language technologies enable tools such as voice-...
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11/20/2020
1st AfricaNLP Workshop Proceedings, 2020
Proceedings of the 1st AfricaNLP Workshop held on 26th April alongside I...
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10/05/2020
Participatory Research for Low-resourced Machine Translation: A Case Study in African Languages
Research in NLP lacks geographic diversity, and the question of how NLP ...
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07/23/2020
AI4D – African Language Dataset Challenge
As language and speech technologies become more advanced, the lack of fu...
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06/26/2020
Mapping the South African health landscape in response to COVID-19
When the COVID-19 disease pandemic infiltrated the world, there was an i...
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06/11/2020
Extracting and categorising the reactions to COVID-19 by the South African public – A social media study
Social Media can be used to extract discussion topics during a disaster....
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04/22/2020
Investigating similarities and differences between South African and Sierra Leonean school outcomes using Machine Learning
Available or adequate information to inform decision making for resource...
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04/02/2020
Use of Available Data To Inform The COVID-19 Outbreak in South Africa: A Case Study
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was ...
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04/02/2020
A Framework For Sharing Publicly Available Data To Inform The COVID-19 Outbreak in Africa: A South African Case Study
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, beca...
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03/13/2020
Masakhane – Machine Translation For Africa
Africa has over 2000 languages. Despite this, African languages account ...
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02/18/2020
Investigating an approach for low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi
The recent advances in Natural Language Processing have been a boon for ...
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