Human Language Technologies For Under Resourced African Languages

Author : Moses Effiong Ekpenyong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783319699608

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Human Language Technologies for Under-Resourced African Languages by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong Pdf

This book provides an overview of a recent and flexible approach to speech synthesis design to develop the first statistical parametric speech synthesizer for Ibibio, a West African tonal language. The design precludes the inflexibility encountered when modeling tonal features of the language and can be used for other tonal African languages. Mobile use and technological innovations in developing African nations have exploded. With mobile technology, many of the barriers caused by infrastructure issues have vanished. In order to address issues that are unique to African tonal languages, the book uses Ibibio as a model. The text reviews the language's speech characteristics, required for building the front end components of the design and propose a finite state transducer (FST), useful for modelling the language’s tonetactics. The statistical parametric approach discussed in the text, implements the Hidden Markov Model (HMM) technique, with the goal of creating a generic structure that learns the model from the text itself, and uses the data-driven approach to input specification.

Author : Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza,Sonja E Bosch
Publisher : AFRICAN SUN MeDIA
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781920338794

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Language Science and Language technology in Africa by Steve Ndinga-Koumba-Binza,Sonja E Bosch Pdf

This book provides a broad overview of current work on South African languages, language resources and language technologies. While it provides a fairly comprehensive overview, it also ties together the most recent knowledge state here, and is therefore truly innovative ? The book is therefore informed by current international trends in the respective fields of science, and feeds back into them ? There is absolutely no doubt that the book has an academic peer audience and is directed at specialists in the field. - Prof. Axel Fleisch, University of Helsinki, Finland

Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323

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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa by Leketi Makalela,Goodith White Pdf

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Author : Zygmunt Vetulani,Patrick Paroubek,Marek Kubis
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-12-30
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783030665272

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Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics by Zygmunt Vetulani,Patrick Paroubek,Marek Kubis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th Language and Technology Conference: Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics, LTC 2017, held in Poznan, Poland, in November 2017. The 26 revised papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 97 submissions. The papers selected to this volume belong to various fields of: Language Resources, Tools and Evaluation, Less-Resourced-Languages, Speech Processing, Morphology, Computational Semantics, Machine Translation, and Information Retrieval and Information Extraction.

Author : Don Osborn,Donald Zhang Osborn
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780796922496

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African Languages in a Digital Age by Don Osborn,Donald Zhang Osborn Pdf

With increasing numbers of computers and diffusion of the internet around the world, localisation of the technology, and the content it carries, into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localisation, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as the creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the 'digital divide'.

Author : Leketi Makalela,Goodith White
Publisher : Multilingual Matters
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-23
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781800412323

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Rethinking Language Use in Digital Africa by Leketi Makalela,Goodith White Pdf

This book challenges the view that digital communication in Africa is limited and relatively unsophisticated and questions the assumption that digital communication has a damaging effect on indigenous African languages. The book applies the principles of Digital African Multilingualism (DAM) in which there are no rigid boundaries between languages. The book charts a way forward for African languages where greater attention is paid to what speakers do with the languages rather than what the languages look like, and offers several models for language policy and planning based on horizontal and user-based multilingualism. The chapters demonstrate how digital communication is being used to form and sustain communication in many kinds of online groups, including for political activism and creating poetry, and offer a paradigm of language merging online that provides a practical blueprint for the decolonization of African languages through digital platforms.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 547 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : African languages
ISBN : OCLC:43623291

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African Language Resource Handbook by Anonim Pdf

Author : Kazuhiro Kondo,Mong-Fong Horng,Jeng-Shyang Pan,Pei Hu
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2023-05-23
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9789819901050

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Advances in Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing by Kazuhiro Kondo,Mong-Fong Horng,Jeng-Shyang Pan,Pei Hu Pdf

The book presents selected papers from the 18th International Conference on Intelligent Information Hiding and Multimedia Signal Processing, held on December 16–18, 2022, in Kitakyushu, Japan. It is divided into two volumes and discusses latest research outcomes in the field of Information Technology (IT) including but not limited to information hiding, multimedia signal processing, big data, data mining, bioinformatics, database, industrial and internet of things, and their applications.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : African languages
ISBN : IND:30000056656428

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The Feasibility of Technical Language Development in the African Languages by Anonim Pdf

Author : Management Association, Information Resources
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 2336 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-05
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781522551928

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Information Retrieval and Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications by Management Association, Information Resources Pdf

With the increased use of technology in modern society, high volumes of multimedia information exists. It is important for businesses, organizations, and individuals to understand how to optimize this data and new methods are emerging for more efficient information management and retrieval. Information Retrieval and Management: Concepts, Methodologies, Tools, and Applications is an innovative reference source for the latest academic material in the field of information and communication technologies and explores how complex information systems interact with and affect one another. Highlighting a range of topics such as knowledge discovery, semantic web, and information resources management, this multi-volume book is ideally designed for researchers, developers, managers, strategic planners, and advanced-level students.

Author : Don Osborn
Publisher : IDRC (International Development Research Centre)
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : African languages
ISBN : 1552504735

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African Languages in a Digital Age by Don Osborn Pdf

With increasing numbers of computers and penetration of the Internet around the world, localization of the technology and the content it carries into the many languages people speak is becoming an ever more important area for discussion and action. Localization, simply put, includes translation and cultural adaptation of user interfaces and software applications, as well as creation and translation of internet content in diverse languages. It is essential in making information and communication technology more accessible to the populations of the poorer countries, increasing its relevance to their lives, needs, and aspirations, and ultimately in bridging the digital divide.A Localization is a new and growing field of inquiry. This book identifies issues, concerns, priorities, and lines of research and is intended as a baseline study in defining localization in the African context and how it is important for development and education in the long term. THE AUTHOR Don Osborn is the Founder of the Bisharat Language, Technology & Development Initiative. He is a former Associate Director for Agriculture, Peace Corps, Niger, and led the PanAfrican Localisation project from 2005 to 2008."

Author : Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri
Publisher : M & J Grand Orbit Communications
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-14
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789785416435

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ICT, Globalisation and the Study of Languages and Linguistics in Africa by Ndimele, Ozo-mekuri Pdf

This book contains papers which focus on the twin subjects of globalisation and information/communication technologies (ICTs). They express either fear or optimism regarding their effects on the survival of indigenous cultures, languages and literature. This book is a must read for anyone who is interested to learn more about the role of globalisation in the erosion of cultural as well as linguistic diversity, and the impact of ICTs in the development of indigenous languages in Africa.

Author : Paul Buitelaar,Philipp Cimiano
Publisher : Springer
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662435854

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Towards the Multilingual Semantic Web by Paul Buitelaar,Philipp Cimiano Pdf

To date, the relation between multilingualism and the Semantic Web has not yet received enough attention in the research community. One major challenge for the Semantic Web community is to develop architectures, frameworks and systems that can help in overcoming national and language barriers, facilitating equal access to information produced in different cultures and languages. As such, this volume aims at documenting the state-of-the-art with regard to the vision of a Multilingual Semantic Web, in which semantic information will be accessible in and across multiple languages. The Multilingual Semantic Web as envisioned in this volume will support the following functionalities: (1) responding to information needs in any language with regard to semantically structured data available on the Semantic Web and Linked Open Data (LOD) cloud, (2) verbalizing and accessing semantically structured data, ontologies or other conceptualizations in multiple languages, (3) harmonizing, integrating, aggregating, comparing and repurposing semantically structured data across languages and (4) aligning and reconciling ontologies or other conceptualizations across languages. The volume is divided into three main sections: Principles, Methods and Applications. The section on “Principles” discusses models, architectures and methodologies that enrich the current Semantic Web architecture with features necessary to handle multiple languages. The section on “Methods” describes algorithms and approaches for solving key issues related to the construction of the Multilingual Semantic Web. The section on “Applications” describes the use of Multilingual Semantic Web based approaches in the context of several application domains. This volume is essential reading for all academic and industrial researchers who want to embark on this new research field at the intersection of various research topics, including the Semantic Web, Linked Data, natural language processing, computational linguistics, terminology and information retrieval. It will also be of great interest to practitioners who are interested in re-examining their existing infrastructure and methodologies for handling multiple languages in Web applications or information retrieval systems.

Author : Moses Effiong Ekpenyong,Imelda Icheji Udoh
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2022-11-30
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789811929328

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Current Issues in Descriptive Linguistics and Digital Humanities by Moses Effiong Ekpenyong,Imelda Icheji Udoh Pdf

This book is a convergence of heterogeneous insights (from languages and literature, history, music, media and communications, computer science and information studies) which previously went their separate ways; now unified under a single framework for the purpose of preserving a unique heritage, the language. In a growing society like ours, description and documentation of human and scientific evidence/resources are improving. However, these resources have enjoyed cost-effective solutions for Western languages but are yet to flourish for African tone languages. By situating discussions around a universe of discourse, sufficient to engender cross-border interactions within the African context, this book shall break a dichotomy of challenges on adaptive processes required to unify resources to assist the development of modern solutions for the African domain.

Author : Chan Sin-wai
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 877 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-04-26
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781000851540

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Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology by Chan Sin-wai Pdf

Routledge Encyclopedia of Translation Technology, second edition, provides a state-of-the-art survey of the field of computer-assisted translation. It is the first definitive reference to provide a comprehensive overview of the general, regional, and topical aspects of this increasingly significant area of study. The Encyclopedia is divided into three parts: Part 1 presents general issues in translation technology, such as its history and development, translator training, and various aspects of machine translation, including a valuable case study of its teaching at a major university; Part 2 discusses national and regional developments in translation technology, offering contributions covering the crucial territories of China, Canada, France, Hong Kong, Japan, South Africa, Taiwan, the Netherlands and Belgium, the United Kingdom, and the United States; Part 3 evaluates specific matters in translation technology, with entries focused on subjects such as alignment, concordancing, localization, online translation, and translation memory. The new edition has five additional chapters, with many chapters updated and revised, drawing on the expertise of over 50 contributors from around the world and an international panel of consultant editors to provide a selection of chapters on the most pertinent topics in the discipline. All the chapters are self-contained, extensively cross-referenced, and include useful and up-to-date references and information for further reading. It will be an invaluable reference work for anyone with a professional or academic interest in the subject.