The IPP Effect in Afrikaans: A Corpus Analysis

AfriKI: Machine-in-the-Loop Afrikaans Poetry Generation

This paper proposes a generative language model called AfriKI. Our approach is based on an LSTM architecture trained on a small corpus of contemporary fiction. With the aim of promoting human creativity, we use the model…

Automatic Compound Processing: Compound Splitting and Semantic Analysis for Afrikaans and Dutch

A Multilingual Sentiment Lexicon for Low-Resource Language Translation using Large Languages Models and Explainable AI

South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) present a complex linguistic landscape with languages such as Zulu, Sepedi, Afrikaans, French, English, and Tshiluba (Ciluba), which creates unique challenges for A…

The Development of Dutch and Afrikaans Language Resources for Compound Boundary Analysis.

In most languages, new words can be created through the process of compounding, which combines two or more words into a new lexical unit. Whereas in languages such as English the components that make up a compound are se…

AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans

Compared to well-resourced languages such as English and Dutch, natural language processing (NLP) tools for Afrikaans are still not abundant. In the context of the AfriBooms project, KU Leuven and the North-West Universi…