3 papers
cs.CL2020
Low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi -- Extended Abstract
Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara, Vongani Chabalala +4
The recent advances in Natural Language Processing have only been a boon for well represented languages, negating research in lesser known global languages. This is in part due to…
cs.CL2020
Investigating an approach for low resource language dataset creation, curation and classification: Setswana and Sepedi
Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara, Vongani Chabalala +4
The recent advances in Natural Language Processing have been a boon for well-represented languages in terms of available curated data and research resources. One of the challenges…
cs.CL2019
Improving short text classification through global augmentation methods
Vukosi Marivate, Tshephisho Sefara
We study the effect of different approaches to text augmentation. To do this we use 3 datasets that include social media and formal text in the form of news articles. Our goal is t…