Human Language technologies (HLT) have been identified as a priority area by South African government to enable its eleven official languages technologically. We present the results of a technology audit for the South African HLT landscape, and reveal that a number of HLT components are available in SA but are of a very basic and exploratory nature and much investment is needed in the development of HLT language resources (LRs) in SA. The South African HLT landscape is analysed using a number of complementary approaches and based on the interpretations of the results, recommendations are made on how to accelerate HLT development in SA
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Grover, AS, Van Huyssteen, GB and Pretorius, MW. 2010. HLT profile of the official South African languages. 2nd AFLaT workshop at the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC) 2010. Valletta, Malta. 19-21 May 2010, pp 3-7
Grover, A., Van Huyssteen, G., & Pretorius, M. (2010). HLT profile of the official South African languages. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4070
Grover, AS, GB Van Huyssteen, and MW Pretorius. "HLT profile of the official South African languages." (2010): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4070
Grover A, Van Huyssteen G, Pretorius M, HLT profile of the official South African languages; 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/4070 .
