The trends emerging in the natural language processing (NLP) of African languages spoken in South Africa, are explored in order to determine whether research in and development of such NLP is keeping abreast of international ...

Northern Sotho and Zulu are two South African Bantu languages that make use of different writing systems, viz. a disjunctive and a conjunctive writing system respectively. In this article it is argued that the different ...

The development of finite-state morphological analyser prototypes for a variety of languages belonging to the Bantu language family, based on underlying machine-readable lexicons that conform to common lexical specifications ...

Traditional healers are essential in traditional and modern African societies, not only because of their special powers to heal the sick and the dying but also because of their link to the spirits of the departed, which ...

Code-switching has become a common social phenomenon governed by social conversational needs. Central to the use of code-switching is the way in which social norms, which are also called rights and obligations, ...

This article investigates one kind of cross-part-of-speech relation for English, Czech and Zulu lexical resources in the form of semantic networks (wordnets). Many languages have rules whereby new words are derived ...

Language resources, by their very nature, serve as a repository oflinguistic knowledge. They are therefore essential in the building and improvement of natural language applications. The aim of this paper is to elaborate ...

This article explores the argument that black South Africans identify themselves readily with their ethnic groups when it comes to activities such as listening to the radio or singing songs in their respective indigenous ...

Languages express the needs of their users, opening windows to information and knowledge. A language of excellence and empowerment is seen through the quantity of literature and thought it can express. In the information ...

This article investigates the nature and occurrence of external arguments of weather verbs in Northern Sotho, with specific reference to the unaccusative hypothesis. Weather verbs are unaccusative. Their surface structure ...