Zola Mahlaza, PhD

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:

• Our work on competency questions was accepted at LDK2025
• Follow up work on noun classification appeared at RESOURCEFUL 2025
• Recent work on noun classification for isiZulu presented @ LoResLM-2025
• We created algorithms for verbalising numbers in isiZulu + created a novel dataset. Work was presented @ the 17th INLG
• We replicated Gabriel et al.’s work as part of HumEval @ LREC-COLING 2024
• Our paper on automatically extracting phonological conditioning rules was presented at DHASA2023

My Dijkstra number is 5