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Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World

Guy — Mon, 01 Mar 2010 13:12:20 +0000

Unsupervised Learning of Morphology and the Languages of the World, Hammarström, Harald , Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gothenburg, (2009)

Abibitumi Kasa: Afrikan (African) Language + Liberation Institutes

Akyeame_Kwame — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 12:15:28 +0000

Abibitumi Kasa Classes | Abibitumi Kasa : An Afrikan Language Institute

https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Learn Conversational Akan (Twi), Yoruba or Wolof Online In One Month! Classes Ongoing!

Online = Accessible to Afrikans worldwide
Engaging = Interactive with live voice and video
Easy = Setup is simple and quick often requiring little to no troubleshooting

https://www.abibitumikasa.com/classes.html
https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

What: You are invited to join one month (8 class) sessions of Conversational Twi, Yoruba or Wolof

Who: All Afrikan people who are serious about being Afrikan

When: Next class session begins the week of September 14th, 2009. Classes ongoing, beginning every month! (Click here for schedule https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/calendar.php)

Monday AND Wednesday Conversational Twi 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

Tuesday AND Thursday Conversational Yoruba 7:00PM-9:00PM Eastern

AND

Saturday AND Sunday Conversational Wolof 6:00PM-8:00PM

Where: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

How: To access the online member classroom, you must register for the Abibitumi Kasa site at https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

You'll need to do this if you don't have an account already.

If you already have an account at the site, login at this link: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/login.php

From there click on the link to member classroom on any page at the site at class time or visit the link to the member classroom here directly at https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

Learn to hook up your audio and/or webcam for class and more at: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/video-tutorials-how-abibitumi-kasa/

How Much: 195 USD for eight (8) class Introductory Class; Contact us about cost of advanced individual tutorials https://www.abibitumikasa.com/contact.html

Why: Repatriation, Visit, Interacting with Family, and more. Let us know your reason for wanting to learn Afrikan languages via our Prospective Student Questionnaire https://www.abibitumikasa.com/nsemmisa.pdf

Four Simple Steps to SUCCESSFUL registration for class:

Have you registered for the class: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/register.html

Have you submitted payment for the class: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/payment.html

Have you registered and logged into the forums: https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/register.php

Have you clicked on member classroom (where the classes are held): https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/chat/flashchat.php

View Class Requirements:
https://www.abibitumikasa.com/forums/faq.php?faq=onlineclasses

Our other classes include:
(Click the class name for details)

Mwalimu Baruti Eureason Course Online

Mwalimu Baruti Afrikan Centered Sociology Course Online

Akinjide Bonotchi Mongomery's Introduction Medew Netcher Course Online

Professor Griff: Psychological Covert War on Hip-Hop Course Online

Akhu Yaw Kamau: Afrikan Mathematics Course Online

Ogechi Amadi's Holistic Child Development Course Online

Dr Runoko Rashidi: Around the World with Runoko Rashidi (Begins again winter 2009)

Ras Ariel: Repatriation Course 101

Baba Balogun Abeegunde: Afrikan Martial Arts: Discovering the Warrior Within

Dr. Kamau Kambon: Seminar: Food Health and You: Why Afrikans Die So Young Course Online (TBA)

Zhiizhii Prince: Kiswahili I Course Online (TBA)

Kentake Mut Merimut: AkokO Nan: Protection and Guardianship of Our Afrikan Children in the Age of WAR Course Online (TBA)

Keidi Obi Awadu: The Great AIDS Hoax Course Online (TBA)

Dr. Hassimi Oumarou Maiga: Songhoy I (Offered based on interest)

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Abibitumi Kasa Online Afrikan African Language Institute

Akyeame_Kwame — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 22:56:53 +0000

URL:

https://www.abibitumikasa.com

Description:

Online and Ghana based Afrikan language institute teaching Yoruba class, Twi class and Wolof class.

https://www.abibitumikasa.com

Automatic Diacritic Restoration for African Languages

Guy — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 11:16:13 +0000

The orthography of many African languages includes diacritically marked characters. Falling outside the scope of the standard Latin encoding, these characters are often represented in digital language resources as their unmarked equivalents. This renders corpus compilation more difficult, as these languages typically do not have the benefit of large electronic dictionaries to perform diacritic restoration.

This 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

Select a language and enter the word or sentence you want to restore diacritics for.
Cilubà (e.g. mutekete)	Gĩkũyũ (e.g. nituronire)
Kĩkamba (e.g. ningulilikana)	Maasai (e.g. oltunani)
Sesotho sa Leboa (Northern Sotho) (e.g. swanetse)	Tshivenḓa (e.g. tshiswitulo)
Yoruba (e.g. isinku)

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Authors:

Guy De Pauw: CNTS - Language Technology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, guy [dot] depauw [at] ua [dot] ac [dot] be
Gilles-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

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES AND PEOPLE NEEDED

Martin.Puttkammer — Mon, 12 Feb 2007 07:27:36 +0000

The Centre for Text Technology (CTexT) at the North-West University (South Africa) is developing proprietary spelling checkers for various African languages. In order to conduct this project successfully, we are currently sourcing various resources, most notably electronic resources (word lists, corpora, etc.) and people (experts and assistants) to contribute to the project.

BACKGROUND

Google Interface in African Languages

Gilles-Maurice — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:54:27 +0000

URL:

https://www.google.com/language_tools

Description:

Google currently offers its interface in the following African languages:

Language	Internet address
Afrikaans	https://www.google.com/intl/af/
Amharic	https://www.google.com/intl/am/
Lingála	https://www.google.com/intl/ln/
Sesotho	https://www.google.com/intl/st/
Shona	https://www.google.com/intl/sn/
Somali	https://www.google.com/intl/so/
Swahili	https://www.google.com/intl/sw/
Tigrinya	https://www.google.com/intl/ti/
Twi	https://www.google.com/intl/tw/
Xhosa	https://www.google.com/intl/xh/
Yoruba	https://www.google.com/intl/yo/
Zulu	https://www.google.com/intl/zu/