A lack of boundaries invites a lack of respect.

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I'm officially a published author and super excited about my first article, "A critical evaluation of 3 Sesotho dictionaries" with my supervisor D. J. Prinsloo. Accessible on lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/article/vi

And another article done, dusted and published. Digitizing Humanities in South Africa #CAPOS 2020 #INKE #POPJOURNAL

Thanks to Rooweither Mabuya presenting on what we, at SADiLaR, do to support #digitalhumanities in SA. We focus on building capacity and a community of practice. Digital Humanities & Computational Social Sciences

Join the presentation by Prof. John Mugane, Prof. Vukosi Marivate 🇿🇦🚀📊, and Dr. Paul Azunre, moderated by Rooweither Mabuya at the two-day Partnerships in STE(A)M Innovation and Future Africa Symposium virtual event. Nov 04, 2022 | 3:15pm CAT / 9:15am ET Registration link: harvard.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Juan Steyn, Rooweither Mabuya, from SADiLaR talk about building the conditions for developing DH capacity in South Africa. Working to develop interdisciplinarity, confidence with new tech, practical skills, soft skills. "Building Human Capacity to prep for DH"

💥 New episode of Practical AI 💥 💡 #NLP research by & for local communities 🤩 with Just Zwennicker & @andiebukula ✨ Rooweither Mabuya & Bonaventure F. P. Dossou ⚡️ hosted by Daniel Whitenack /cc Masakhane Lanfrica 💚 practicalai.fm/205 #ai #machinelearning

What a great way to kick off Practical AI 🤖 2023! This week we are sharing a conversation I had at #EMNLP2022 w/ Bonaventure F. P. Dossou, Just Zwennicker, Andie Bukula, and Rooweither Mabuya. Amazing researchers building SOTA #AI #NLProc for their communities. Listen here: changelog.com/practicalai/205

We compared Africa-centric Models to OpenAI’s GPT3.5 for isiZulu and here were our results 🤯 🌍 The translations are hilarious, but in truth quite terrifying 😂 😱 lelapa.ai/comparing-afri…

A big thank you to our language coordinators and Lacuna Fund for supporting the project Lacuna Fund Bonaventure F. P. Dossou Chris Chinenye Emezue Andie Bukula Rooweither Mabuya Jesujoba Alabi Àrẹ̀mú Adéọlá Jr. Blessing Sibanda Cate G ÐɛЯǤưƎηE  MUKIIBI JONATHAN Perez Ogayo Shamsuddeen Hassan Muhammad, PhD Happy B. Kasumba @Tajuddeeng

The dataset is public github.com/masakhane-io/m…

Our first paper, presented by Rooweither Mabuya Rooweither Mabuya at RAIL2023, "Unsupervised Cross-lingual Word Embedding Representation for English-isiZulu" It will be available soon online. You can access the "Umsuka English - isiZulu Parallel Corpus" on Zenodo zenodo.org/record/5035171

To learn more about Digital Humanities Researcher Mmasibidi Setaka and her reza sadila r colleague Rooweither Mabuya, both newly certified Carpentries Instructor Trainers along with 11 other new Trainers from Argentina, Germany, Mexico, the UK and the US, revisit: carpentries.org/blog/2023/08/t…

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Read: Abstract that got us the invitation for the Keynote. Title - Hear the Drums: Embracing Technology and African Languages, A Call for Collaboration and Urgent Action It is available in English, isiZulu for now. Add your translation docs.google.com/document/u/1/d… #ALASA #ALASA23

South Africa🇿🇦 most spoken languages.: No.1 isiZulu: 15 million (24.4%) followed by 10 million of Xhosa (16.3% of the population of SA) with Afrikaans coming 3rd beating English. Sepedi also comes before English. English however still dominates as the language of business in SA.

We are hiring Student Administrative Assistant for 2024 Part-time paid role for University of Pretoria honours/masters/PhD student, 12 hrs/week. Full details bit.ly/DSFSIAdminAssi… Deadline 26 Feb 2024

I had a discussion with Kabod about Africa language technology, Linguistics Island; a community of linguists who work on African languages and languages. You could listen here: Spotify: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/kabod… YouTube: youtu.be/gUNpCJyRMAk Thanks to Kabod Group.

COMPETITION TIME📢 Do you have what it takes to become a super contributor & enhance content in all official SA languages on Wikipedia? Enter the SWiP competition aimed at preserving official SA languages on the free encyclopedia! Enter here: bit.ly/3zSujTW Pan South African Language Board