SADiLaR

Postgraduate student involvement as co-developers of sustainable OER

As educators of a structured master's in Education program specialising in ODL, we collaborated with our students to create an OER using our lecture notes and student assignments. Although we previously used OERs and open texts, they were not …

Publishing data papers in the humanities: my experience from the Journal of Open Humanities Data

With the increasing adoption of Open Knowledge principles in research and the growing availability of born-digital and digital collections, as well as data-intensive methods, new questions arise on the best practices for open research in the …

Making Strange: Co-Creating Afrikaans Poetry with a Boutique Language Model

This study proposes a generative language model called AfriKI – an abbreviation for Afrikaanse Kunsmatige Intelligensie, or Afrikaans Artificial Intelligence. The approach is based on an LSTM architecture trained on a small corpus of contemporary …

An NLP method in the corpus analysis of Central Kurdish definiteness marker

In this study, Regular Expression (Regex) is used to improve searching techniques in Natural Language Processing (NLP). Regex is a string of text in which a user is allowed to create patterns which can be useful for text matching, locating, and …

Launching ESCALATOR

The ESCALATOR programme aims to grow the digital humanities and computational social sciences community in South Africa. It is run by the [South African Centre for Digital Language Resources](https://www.sadilar.org/index.php/en/) (SADiLaR).