Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by UP Author "Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth)"

Browsing Research Articles (University of Pretoria) by UP Author "Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth)"

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  • African language dictionaries for children - a neglected genre 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Buro van die WAT, 2019)
    Children's dictionaries are instrumental in establishing a dictionary culture and are the gateway to sustained and informed dictionary use. It is therefore surprising that very little attention is paid to these dictionaries ...
  • Afrikataalleksikografie : gister, vandag en more 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2017)
    Hierdie artikel het ten doel om 'n perspektief te bied op Afrikataalleksikografie se reaksie op ontwikkelings in die internasionale leksikografiepraktyk met betrekking tot nuwe tendense en veranderinge wat hoofsaaklik deur ...
  • Cattle and their colours : a synchronic investigation of cattle colour terminology in Northern Sotho 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2015-12)
    In Northern Sotho, a separate colour lexicon is distinguished, containing terms which are believed to be used exclusively as colour terms to describe not only the colours, but also the colour patterning found among ...
  • Collocations and grammatical patterns in a multilingual online term bank 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Buro van die WAT, 2015)
    This article considers the importance of including various types of collocations in a terminological database, with the aim of making this information available to the user via the user interface. We refer specifically to ...
  • Corpus-based language teaching : an African language perspective 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (NISC, 2012-12-19)
    Studies on corpus-based language teaching are notably absent within the South African educational context; more so with regard to the teaching of African languages. This article explores the possibilities offered by the ...
  • A corpus-driven account of the noun classes and genders in Northern Sotho 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); De Schryver, Gilles-Maurice (Routledge, 2016-06)
    This article offers a distributional corpus analysis of the Northern Sotho noun and gender system. The aim is twofold: first, to assess whether the existing descriptions of the noun class system in Northern Sotho are ...
  • A cross-linguistic study of blood metaphors in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho 
    Bosman, Nerina; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2021)
    Although a considerable body of corpus-based metaphor research—with Conceptual Metaphor Theory as theoretical framework and heuristic tool—has been published internationally, South African studies in this field are lagging ...
  • Cultural adaptation and Northern Sotho translation of the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers 
    Vorster, Carlien; Kritzinger, Alta M. (Aletta Margaretha); Lekganyane, Matemane; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Van der Linde, Jeannie (AOSIS, 2022-01-13)
    BACKGROUND : In recent reviews of autism spectrum disorder screening tools, the Modified Checklist for Autism in Toddlers, Revised with Follow-Up (M-CHAT-R/FTM) has been recommended for use in lower middle-income countries ...
  • Designing a noun guesser for part of speech tagging in Northern Sotho 
    Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Faab, Gertrud; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2009)
    In this article, we describe an element of a suite of computational tools for assigning word-class tags (as a preparation for part of speech (POS) tagging) to word forms in unrestricted Northern Sotho texts. POS-tagging ...
  • Honderd jaar Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls – ’n oorsig en waardering. Deel 1 : Die woordelys 
    Bosman, Nerina; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-06)
    In 2017 the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS) celebrates its centenary year. Our contribution commemorates this milestone with a (re)evaluation of this standard and wellknown reference work – in particular of the ...
  • Honderd jaar Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls – ’n oorsig en waardering. Deel 2 : Die gebruiker in fokus 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Bosman, Nerina (Suid Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap & Kuns, 2017-06)
    This article is the second in a series of two concerned with the word list section of the Afrikaanse Woordelys en Spelreëls (AWS). The online version of the word list section was released to users in 2010, shortly after ...
  • Implementation of a part-of-speech ontology : morphemic units of Bantu languages 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Faab, Gertrud; Bosch, S. (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2015)
    In a previous article (Faaß et al, 2012), a first attempt was made at documenting and encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages, i.e. Northern Sotho and Zulu, with the aim of describing and storing ...
  • In search of larger units of meaning: a foray into Northern Sotho data 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Routledge, 2014-03)
    The availability of large-scale electronic language corpora has led to revolutionary changes in the landscape of linguistic research. Corpus linguistics has in the past few decades developed from an alternative methodology ...
  • Language learning applications for Sepedi : a user experience study 
    Wilken, Ilana; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); De Wet, Febe (Routledge, 2018)
    Being a multilingual country rich in culture and diversity, South Africa has residents who use a variety of the 11 official languages for daily communication. Multilingual communication occurs especially in hospitals and ...
  • On the development of a tagset for Northern Sotho with special reference to the issue of standardisation 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Faab, Gertrud; Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2008)
    Working with corpora in the South African Bantu languages has up till now been limited to the utilisation of raw corpora. Such corpora, however, have limited functionality. Thus the next logical step in any NLP application ...
  • Optical character recognition and text cleaning in the indigenous South African languages 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Goosen, Michelle (Stellenbosch University, Library and Information Service, 2022)
    This article represents follow-up work on unpublished presentations by the authors of text and corpus cleaning strategies for the African languages. In this article we provide a comparative description of cleaning of ...
  • The semantics of eating in Afrikaans and Northern Sotho : cross-linguistic variation in metaphor 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Bosman, Nerina (Routledge, 2014-07)
    The abundant and systematic presence of metaphor in language has in particular been explored by departing from the embodied nature of many metaphors. In the current research we investigate the manner in which the concept ...
  • Towards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages 
    Faab, Gertrud; Bosch, Sonja; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2012)
    This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South ...
  • Use of LSP dictionaries in secondary schools - a South African case study 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Fricke, Irene (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011)
    This article reports on the results of a broad evaluation of the efficacy of the Multilingual Explanatory Science Dictionary and Multilingual Explanatory Math Dictionary in a multilingual educational environment. The aim ...