AfLaT.org - African languages https://aflat.org/taxonomy/term/58/0 en Language Rights in Africa https://aflat.org/node/168 <!--paging_filter--><p>The importance of language by Innocent Maja </p> <p>The current multidisciplinary language discourse in law, politics, sociology, antropology and linguistic on the importance of language reveals that language is important in at least six ways.</p> <p><a href="https://aflat.org/node/168" target="_blank">read more</a></p> https://aflat.org/node/168#comments Project / Organisation African languages culture human rights international law Language rights linguistic diversity minority languages multilingualism Sat, 29 Sep 2007 12:37:05 +0000 Vamaja 168 at https://aflat.org Information Retrieval Strategies for Accessing African Audio Corpora https://aflat.org/node/156 <span class="biblio-title"><a href="/biblio/view/156">Information Retrieval Strategies for Accessing African Audio Corpora</a></span>, <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/28" class="biblio-local-author">Abdillahi, Nimaan</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/29">Nocera Pascal</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/40">Bêchet Frédéric</a>, and <a href="/biblio/author/31">Bonastre Jean-François</a></span> , Proceedings Interspeech 2007, (2007) <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fwww.aflat.org&amp;rft.title=Verbal+extension+sequencing%3A+An+examination+from+a+computational+perspective"></span> https://aflat.org/node/156#comments Eastern Africa Tool / Application african corpora African languages asr information retrieval Fri, 06 Jul 2007 14:08:20 +0000 nimaan 156 at https://aflat.org Sociolingo's Africa Blog https://aflat.org/node/149 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://www.sociolingo.wordpress.com" target="_blank">https://www.sociolingo.wordpress.com</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>A general blog about Africa with strengths in linguistics and culture.</p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/149#comments Central Africa Eastern Africa Northern Africa Southern Africa Western Africa Corpus Dictionary / Lexicon Tool / Application Project / Organisation African languages African linguistics African sociolinguistics Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:00:08 +0000 Sociolingo 149 at https://aflat.org Speech mining to make African oral patrimony accessible https://aflat.org/node/128 <span class="biblio-title"><a href="/biblio/view/128">Speech mining to make African oral patrimony accessible</a></span>, <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/28" class="biblio-local-author">Abdillahi, Nimaan</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/29">Nocera Pascal</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/31">Bonastre Jean-François</a>, and <a href="/biblio/author/40">Bêchet Frédéric</a></span> , Proceedings of LREC workshop - Networking the development of language resources for African languages, Genova - Italia, (2006) <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fwww.aflat.org&amp;rft.title=Speech+mining+to+make+African+oral+patrimony+accessible&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.aulast=Nimaan+Abdillahi++Fr%C3%A9deric+Bechet&amp;rft.aufirst=Pascal+Nocera+Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois+Bonastre&amp;rft.place=Genova+-+Italia"></span> https://aflat.org/node/128#comments Eastern Africa Tool / Application African languages corpus information access search engine Somali language speech recognition Thu, 01 Feb 2007 09:00:58 +0000 nimaan 128 at https://aflat.org Automatic transcription of Somali language https://aflat.org/node/126 <span class="biblio-title"><a href="/biblio/view/126">Automatic transcription of Somali language</a></span>, <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/28" class="biblio-local-author">Abdillahi, Nimaan</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/29">Nocera Pascal</a>, and <a href="/biblio/author/31">Bonastre Jean-François</a></span> , Interspeech 2006, Pittsburgh PA, USA, (2006) <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fwww.aflat.org&amp;rft.title=Automatic+transcription+of+Somali+language&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.aulast=Nimaan+Abdillahi++Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois+Bonastre&amp;rft.aufirst=Pascal+Nocera&amp;rft.place=Pittsburgh+PA%2C+USA"></span> https://aflat.org/node/126#comments Eastern Africa Tool / Application African languages Somali language speech recognition text corpus Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:57:01 +0000 nimaan 126 at https://aflat.org Towards automatic transcription of Somali language https://aflat.org/node/125 <span class="biblio-title"><a href="/biblio/view/125">Towards automatic transcription of Somali language</a></span>, <span class="biblio-authors"><a href="/biblio/author/28" class="biblio-local-author">Abdillahi, Nimaan</a>, <a href="/biblio/author/29">Nocera Pascal</a>, and <a href="/biblio/author/31">Bonastre Jean-François</a></span> , LREC 2006, Genova - Italia, (2006) <span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Adc&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fwww.aflat.org&amp;rft.title=Towards+automatic+transcription+of+Somali+language&amp;rft.date=2006&amp;rft.aulast=Nimaan++Jean-Fran%C3%A7ois+Bonastre&amp;rft.aufirst=Pascal+Nocera&amp;rft.place=Genova+-+Italia"></span> https://aflat.org/node/125#comments Eastern Africa Tool / Application African languages Somali language speech recognition text corpus Thu, 01 Feb 2007 08:49:21 +0000 nimaan 125 at https://aflat.org Online Publications Involving TshwaneDJe Members https://aflat.org/node/65 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://tshwanedje.com/publications/" target="_blank">https://tshwanedje.com/publications/</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>A collection of articles and papers on corpus and dictionary topics for the African languages, as well as on language-independent lexicography and terminology software.</p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/65#comments Central Africa Eastern Africa Southern Africa Western Africa Corpus Dictionary / Lexicon Tool / Application African languages articles Bantu papers Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:31:15 +0000 Gilles-Maurice 65 at https://aflat.org The ALLEX Project https://aflat.org/node/16 <!--paging_filter--><div class="field field-type-link field-field-url"> <div class="field-label">URL:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <a href="https://www.edd.uio.no/allex/" target="_blank">https://www.edd.uio.no/allex/</a> </div> </div> </div> <div class="field field-type-text field-field-description"> <div class="field-label">Description:&nbsp;</div> <div class="field-items"> <div class="field-item odd"> <!--paging_filter--><p>The ALLEX Project is a joint project between the Universities of Oslo and Zimbabwe organised and financed under the NUFU agreement (Project nr 28/96). The University of Gothenburg has also participated in the ALLEX Project from the start in 1992. As in all NUFU Projects the concept is that ALLEX should be a development Project between equal partners, all of whom benefit from the cooperation. The Project is designed to describe, promote, develop the African languages of Zimbabwe as general means of communications within all sectors of society.</p> </div> </div> </div> https://aflat.org/node/16#comments Eastern Africa Project / Organisation African languages development Tue, 12 Dec 2006 14:53:53 +0000 Guy 16 at https://aflat.org