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    Zola Mahlaza

    Computer Scientist.

    My current research is in natural language generation for Nguni languages. I am also interested in conceptual modelling and human language technologies.

    Recent highlights:

    • 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
    • The ToCT task ontology for capturing complex templates was published at JOWO 2021

    Reviewing:

    • 2023: ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    • 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

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