CapeNLG research group

Research group based in Cape Town focused on natural language generation (NLG) for African languages, with a particular emphasis on low-resourced Southern African langauges.

Focus areas

  • Natural language generation for low-resourced African languages
  • Controlled natural languages
  • Computational morphology, noun classification, and other tasks for African languages
  • Knowledge engineering and ontology verbalisation
  • Human evaluation of generated text

Members

Postgraduate students

  • Phuthang Makhupane (MSc. CS)
  • Tadiwa Magwenzi (MSc. CS)
  • Masixole Nkumbesi (MPhil. Inclusive Innovation)
  • Dennis Kiptanui Too (PhD. CS)
  • Atshilaho Nethathe (PhD. CS)
  • Daniel Holgate (Msc. CS)
  • Nana kwabena Opoku-Acheampong (Msc. AI)
  • Lindani Buthelezi (M.IT)

Hons students

  • Dylan Saayman, Connor Paton, Dean Sneddon

Scientific programmers and research assistants

  • Katlego Makhubedu
  • Génevieve Rachel Chikwanha

Publications

Work associated with CapeNLG members can be found on the publications page.