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:

• Investigation of the feasibility of ontology-based educational question generation with an LLM accepted at INLG2026
• Our ontology-motivated model for the annotation of noun class systems accepted at FOIS2026
• Our work on bootstrapping for spellchecking presented at SAICSIT2026
• Investigation of LLMs in pipeline for generating competency questions presented at LDK2025
• Follow up work on noun classification appeared at RESOURCEFUL 2025
• Recent work on noun classification for isiZulu presented @ LoResLM-2025

My Dijkstra number is 5