A repository of free lexical resources for African languages

ZA_LEX: lexical resources for South African languages

This repository contains lexical pronunciation resources and modules for use in text-to-speech (TTS) systems. Specifically, it was originally set up to track work on updating and enhancing existing resources for the NTTS project funded by the Department of Arts an

WALA: A Multilingual Resource Repository for West African Languages

The West African Language Archive (WALA) initiative has emerged from a number of concurrent projects, and aims to encourage local scholars to create high quality decentralised repositories documenting West African languages, and to make these repositories available

Towards Augmenting Lexical Resources for Slang and African American English

Researchers in natural language processing have developed large, robust resources for understanding

Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages CCURL 2018-Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages

Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages

This work supports further development of language technology for the languages of Africa by providing a Wikidata-derived resource of name lists corresponding to common entity types (person, location, and organization). While we are not the first to mine Wikidata f

Mining Wikidata for Name Resources for African Languages

This work supports further development of language technology for the languages of Africa by providing a Wikidata-derived resource of name lists corresponding to common entity types (person, location, and organization). While we are not the first to mine Wikidata f