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:
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## 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.
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## 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 |
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## 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) |
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## File Overview
| File | Description |
|------|-------------|
| `CPST_Assessment_Supplementary.xlsx` | Primary dataset — 10 s …