Zola Mahlaza
Computer Scientist.
My current research is in natural language generation for African languages. I am also interested in conceptual modelling, knowledge engineering, and human language technologies.
Recent highlights:
- We received a distinguished paper award at FOIS 2023
- Graduated from CS@UCT – thesis titled “Foundations for reusable and maintainable surface realisers for isiXhosa and isiZulu”
- Published a journal article (ACM TALLIP) on an architecture for surface realisers created for low-resourced langs
- Contributed to running a tutorial on ontology verbalisation at JOWO2022
- Presented a long paper on creating an automated assistant for high school maths education at SACLA2022
Service:
- 2023: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, IEEE Transactions on Education , South African Computer Journal, Local chair @ Compass 2023, The 22nd International Semantic Web Conference, 16th International Natural Language Generation Conference
- 2022: The 21st International Semantic Web Conference, ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, The 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Southern African Artificial Intelligence Conference: Artificial Intelligence for Science, Technology and Society, Applied ontology
- 2021: Progress in Artificial Intelligence, 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Southern African Artificial Intelligence Conference: Artificial Intelligence for Science, Technology and Society
My Dijkstra number is 5