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SADiLaR
SADiLaR (the South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), is a Department of Science and Innovation-sponsored initiative to create and manage digital resources and software supporting research and development in digital language resources in South Africa. Vision and Mission SADiLaR is focussed on preserving and advancing South Africa's under-resourced indigenous language. They wish to promote a digital future for all South Africans, irrespective of their language background. This is enabled by stimulating and enabling digital research and development into vernacular languages and they share these language resources freely. History Founded in 2016, and hosted at the North-West University, SADiLaR aims to provide a resource centre that simulates, enables, manages and distributes digital research related to all of South Africa's official languages. It functions both as host and as a hub for a number of nodes, including other universities, research centres and public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
SWiP Project
The SWiP project makes use of language, data and knowledge technologies to promote language equality among all of South Africa's official languages. The linguistic hegemonic status of English (and to a lesser extent Afrikaans) has resulted in English being the language of learning and teaching which downplays an African epistemology, thus local African languages are commonly under resourced. The acronym"SWiP" describes the three main partners in a national collaboration between SADiLaR, the free encyclopedia Wikipedia and Pan South African Language Board, PanSALB who are working alongside local speech and language communities within Academica, to address language equality using digital technologies, especially Wikipedia. Under apartheid, certain languages were marginalised, including Southern Ndebele language, isiNdebele, Swazi language, Siswati, Tsonga language, Xitsonga and Venda language, Tshivenda. To address the underrepresentation of Indigenous languages of South Africa, So ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
