Over the years, it has been evident that language learners in South African schools struggle with reading at appropriate levels of comprehension and fluency. Despite numerous interventions to improve learners’ reading levels, the texts used in …
Don't miss out on a presentation on isiBheqe scripts, their typology & the speakers' experiences with the isiBheqe soHlamvu writing system.
Mark your calendars and make sure to secure your spot for the SADilaR DH Colloquium. Stay tuned for further …
Globally, multilingualism is the norm rather than the exception, and there is startling diversity in the linguistic and contextual factors that shape it. For several decades now, scholars have voiced concerns about sampling biases in multilingualism …
This talk will broadly discuss the speaker's experience around data access in the healthcare sector and the importance of collaboration, digitisation and digitalisation in the efforts to improve health outcomes. The discussion will centre around an …
This session offers an in-depth exploration of the transformation of Heinrich Bullinger's vast 12,000-letter corpus into a dynamic, fully digital, and multilingual format. We'll delve into the sophisticated digital workflows that navigate challenges …
Join us as we look at Network Science & the DH: Applications, opportunities & challenges for interdisciplinary research in the SA context.
Network science has opened up new avenues of research since its inception more than two decades ago, and also …
Join us for the DH Colloquium with Chao Tayiana Maina, where we'll dive into exciting discussions on new technologies—don't miss it!
Encounters with new technologies often bring opportunities to create new narratives, but they also bear the …
There seems to be a surplus of trust and distrust in contemporary media culture. On the one hand, we place great trust in the platforms that govern and structure our online lives. We rely on algorithms to organize our lives and make decisions for us. …
Join us for the SADilaR DH Colloquium, featuring Amandla Ngwendu and Jacques De Wet, two renowned experts in their fields. This exciting online event will take place on Wed Aug 16 2023 at 10:00 AM South Africa Standard Time.
During this colloquium, …
The proliferation of NLP-powered language technologies, AI-based natural language generation models, and English as a mainstream means of communication among native and non-native speakers make the output of AI-powered tools especially intriguing to …