Localising the Mozilla Common Voice platform for South Africa’s official languages
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Febe de Wet, Andiswa Bukula, Willem Karsten
Despite many attempts to address the situation, South Africa's official languages remain under-resourced in terms of the text and speech data required to implement state-of-the-art …
Creating electronic resources for African languages through digitisation: a technical report
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Elsabé Taljard, Danie Prinsloo, Michelle Goosen
The need for electronic resources for (under-resourced) African languages is an often stated one. These resources are needed for language research in general, and more …
A Lexical database of Malagsay adjectives
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Joro Ranaivoarison
This paper deals with an electronic resource under construction. The objective is to construct a lexical database of Malagasy adjectives. Malagasy is an agglutinative language …
Perceptions of COVID-19 among frontline health workers in Burkina Faso
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Fadima Yaya Bocoum, Kadidiatou Kadio, Télésphore Some
Introduction: In Burkina Faso, the first cases of COVID-19 were reported in March 2020. Health personnel are on the front line of COVID-19 control, and …
Impact of dry deposition flux and dust intrusion phenomena on elemental concentrations of air particulate matter
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Abdallah M. A. Dawood, Eric Akortia, Sultan J. Alsufyani
Depositions of trace elements of air particulates in the atmosphere have gained much attention in recent times due to their environmental, climatic and health impacts. …
Development of a prediction model for the behavior of bolted structure with an elastic part joint based on metamodel approach
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Mohammed Haiek, Yassine Lakhal, Said Ben
This paper aims to establish a metamodel for predicting the mechanical behavior of bolted structures with elastic parts, regardless the changes in input parameters from …
The bayesian approach of factors associated with preterm birth among mothers delivered at public hospitals in Southeast Ethiopia
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Yilkal Negesse, Gossa Fetene Abebe
Background: Preterm birth remains the commonest cause of neonatal mortality, and morbidity represents one of the principal targets of neonatal healthcare. Ethiopia is one of …
Analysing Cross-Lingual Transfer in Low-Resourced African Named Entity Recognition
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Michael Beukman, Manuel Fokam
Michael Beukman, Manuel Fokam. Proceedings of the 13th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing and the 3rd Conference of the Asia-Pacific Chapter of the …
A reflection on critical reflection in professional education research
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Christine Winberg, James Garraway, Penelope Engel‐Hills
The roots of universities of technology can be traced back to technical colleges, which required compliance with industry standards, and the rule of labour markets. …
Problematising the South African Higher Education inequalities exposed during the Covid-19 pandemic: Students’ perspectives
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Corinne Knowles, A DeCaprio James, Lebogang Khoza
Former Rhodes University students, co-authors of this article, were engaged in a knowledge-making project during the Covid-19 pandemic. This paper is a product of that …
A typology of the use of clicks
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Matthias Brenzinger, Sheena Shah
Click speech sounds were first identified as consonants in the 17th century. On his voyage to India in 1627, the English traveller and historian Sir …
IMPLEMENTATION OF A DIGITAL TWINNING APPROACH TO IMPROVE DESIGNS OF POLYURETHANE HEART VALVES
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Lebohang Masheane, Willie du Preez, Jacques Combrinck
Young sub-Saharan African and developing-world patients with rheumatic heart valve diseases urgently require cost-effective prosthetic valves. To design cost-effective polyurethane heart valves, comprehend haemodynamic behaviour, …
USING TOPOLOGY OPTIMISATION TO INFLUENCE THE INFILL PLACEMENT OF FUSED DEPOSITION MODELLED PARTS
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Ashley Dillon Toth, Jared Padayachee
Additive manufacturing continues to see increased growth and adoption across various industries owing to technology improvements and increasing material options. This paper presents a method …
Unveiling Identity Biases in Toxicity Detection : A Game-Focused Dataset and Reactivity Analysis Approach
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Josiane Van Dorpe, Zachary Yang, Nicolas Grenon‐Godbout
Identity biases arise commonly from annotated datasets, can be propagated in language models and can cause further harm to marginal groups.Existing bias benchmarking datasets are …
rematchka at ArAIEval Shared Task: Prefix-Tuning & Prompt-tuning for Improved Detection of Propaganda and Disinformation in Arabic Social Media Content
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Reem Abdel‐Salam
The rise of propaganda and disinformation in the digital age has necessitated the development of effective detection methods to combat the spread of deceptive information.In …
AAST-NLP at ArAIEval Shared Task: Tackling Persuasion technique and Disinformation Detection using Pre-Trained Language Models On Imbalanced Datasets
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Ahmed El-Sayed, Omar A. Nasr, Noureldin Elmadany
This paper presents the pipeline developed by the AAST-NLP team to address both the persuasion technique detection and disinformation detection shared tasks.The proposed system for …
rematchka at NADI 2023 shared task: Parameter Efficient tuning for Dialect Identification and Dialect Machine Translation
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Reem Abdel‐Salam
Dialect identification systems play a significant role in various fields and applications as in speech and language technologies, facilitating language education, supporting sociolinguistic research, preserving …
USTHB at ArAIEval’23 Shared Task: Disinformation Detection System based on Linguistic Feature Concatenation
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Mohamed Lichouri, Khaled Lounnas, Aicha Zitouni
In this research paper, we undertake a comprehensive examination of several pivotal factors that impact the performance of Arabic Disinformation Detection in the ArAIEval'2023 shared …
SUSTAINABLE LIVELIHOODS AND VALUE CHAIN DEVELOPMENT WITH WOMEN ENTREPRENEURS: EVIDENCE AND LESSONS FROM THE CLOTHING BANK, SOUTH AFRICA
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Tanusha Raniga
Female-headed households often benefit from engaging in sustainable livelihoods and value chain development approaches to enhance income security. In this article, the researcher employs a …
The tensions between culture and human rights: Emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world
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S.M. Kang’ethe
Editors: Vishanthie Sewpaul, Linda Kreitzer and Tanusha Raniga (2021). The tensions between culture and human rights: Emancipatory social work and Afrocentricity in a global world. …