WakumaAyanaJifar/CPST-Assessment-Framework-for-African-Minor-Language-Preservation

This supplementary file provides structured CPST assessment data for the paper: 'A CPST Framework for African Minor Language Preservation and Revitalization in the AGI Era' (Scientific African). # Supplementary Data: CPST Assessment Framework for African Minor Language Preservation This repository contains the supplementary data file for the research paper: > **A Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking (CPST) Framework for African Minor Language Preservation and Revitalization in the AGI Era** > *Scientific African* (submitted) > Authors: --- ## About This Dataset This Excel workbook provides the structured assessment data underlying the CPST framework evaluation in the paper. It contains detailed ratings, sub-criteria scores, and cross-dataset language coverage data used to diagnose the state of African minor language preservation across five case-study countries. --- ## CPST Framework **CPST (Cyber-Physical-Social-Thinking)** — four-dimensional framework originally proposed by Ning and Liu (2015) for socio-technical systems analysis, applied here to African minor language preservation. | Dimension | Coverage | Key Question | |-----------|----------|--------------| | **Cyber** | Digital resources: corpora, models, benchmarks, speech data, APIs | Functional NLP tools availability | | **Physical** | Offline deployment, radio, textbooks, signage, writing systems | Physical presence in community | | **Social** | Institutions, policies, networks, capacity building, data sovereignty | Institutional support | | **Thinking** | Cognition, identity, trust, participatory design, epistemic justice | Speaker perception and trust | --- ## DLVS Mapping **Digital Language Vitality Scale (DLVS)** (Kornai 2013; DLDP 2018) mapped to CPST: | DLVS Dimension | CPST Dimension | Typical African Score | |----------------|----------------|----------------------| | Capacity | Cyber | 2–3 (Minimal/Limited) | | Presence | Physical | 2–3 (None/Minimal) | | Performance | Social | 3–4 (Minimal/Medium) | | Prestige | Thinking | 2–4 (Varies widely) | --- ## File Overview | File | Description | |------|-------------| | `CPST_Assessment_Supplementary.xlsx` | Primary dataset — 10 s …