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Mapping the South African health landscape in response to COVID-19
Nompumelelo Mtsweni, Herkulaas MvE Combrink, Vukosi Marivate
When the COVID-19 disease pandemic infiltrated the world, there was an immediate need for accurate information. As with any outbreak, the outbreak follows a clear trajectory, and s…
Extracting and categorising the reactions to COVID-19 by the South African public -- A social media study
Vukosi Marivate, Avashlin Moodley, Athandiwe Saba
Social Media can be used to extract discussion topics during a disaster. With the COVID-19 pandemic impact on South Africa, we need to understand how the law and regulation promulg…
Use of Available Data To Inform The COVID-19 Outbreak in South Africa: A Case Study
Vukosi Marivate, Herkulaas MvE Combrink
The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, was declared a pandemic by the World Health Organization (WHO) in February 2020. Currently, there are no vaccine…
Investigating similarities and differences between South African and Sierra Leonean school outcomes using Machine Learning
Henry Wandera, Vukosi Marivate, David Sengeh
Available or adequate information to inform decision making for resource allocation in support of school improvement is a critical issue globally. In this paper, we apply machine l…
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…
Masakhane -- Machine Translation For Africa
Iroro Orife, Julia Kreutzer, Blessing Sibanda +22
Africa has over 2000 languages. Despite this, African languages account for a small portion of available resources and publications in Natural Language Processing (NLP). This is du…