1. Suléne Pilon & Danie Prinsloo E-mail: sulene.pilon@nwu.ac.za; danie.prinsloo@up.ac.za Overview: Teaching and Training in South Africa 25 November 2008; Cape Town

2. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Introduction: Overview 25 November 2008; Cape Town Under-graduate NWU UFS Post-graduate UFS UP UNISA Limpopo NWU Pilon & Prinsloo

3. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town BA Language Technology Only programme of its kind in SA Equips students to: Fill positions in emergent SA HLT industry Continue with post-graduate studies Project-based Pilon & Prinsloo

4. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town Basic core of modules Langauges Computer Programming Mathematics General formative modules Languages First language: Afrikaans, English, Setswana Foreign language: Setswana, isiZulu, German, French Pilon & Prinsloo

5. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town Language Technology: Introduction Language Technology: Linguistics for Language Technology Students Introduction to NLP Language Technology: Speech Applications Language Technology: Text Applications Language technology: Internship Advanced NLP Language Technology Project Pilon & Prinsloo

6. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town Electronic Engineering students Project in final year CTexT Etienne Barnard Pilon & Prinsloo

7. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: UFS 25 November 2008; Cape Town Two courses as part of “Language Practitioners” programme Introduction to Speech and Language Technology Technology in Translation Has an entire HLT course “on the books” Currently dormant Could be activated if need arises Pilon & Prinsloo

8. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Under-graduate Teaching: Other 25 November 2008; Cape Town University of Pretoria Some lectures as part of an AI course Pilon & Prinsloo

9. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: Introduction 25 November 2008; Cape Town University websites quite uninformative Obtained information from individuals No such modules at Wits No such modules at UJ Not enough student interest Pilon & Prinsloo

10. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UFS 25 November 2008; Cape Town “Language Practitioners” Honours programme Six fields of specialisation One of them: Language Technology Focus on Computer Assisted Translation Application Localization Pilon & Prinsloo

11. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UP 25 November 2008; Cape Town LEX 852 HLT in Lexicography and NLP Introduction to core aspects of HLT in lexicography Introduction to NLP Focusing on the compilation and manipulation of corpora Building and validation of spellcheckers Use, compilation and monitoring of usage of paper, electronic and internet dictionaries Pilon & Prinsloo

12. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UP 25 November 2008; Cape Town TRL 711 HLT in Translation Practice Focus on the use and application of HLT in translation practice Localization, internationalization and globalization. Translation and language technology Introduction to the use of Computer-Assisted Translation (CAT) tools – translation memory (TM) Terminology management Machine translation (MT) Pilon & Prinsloo

13. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UP 25 November 2008; Cape Town TRL 711 HLT in Translation Practice II Use of electronic text corpora as translation resource. Translator's aid and translators' tools Mining for translation equivalents Obtaining translation equivalents for terms that do not exist in the target language by utilizing electronic resources Using the Internet as 'consulting expert', etc. Pilon & Prinsloo

14. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UNISA 25 November 2008; Cape Town COS461J : Natural Language Processing Introduction to the theoretical and practical aspects of NLP Focus on fundamental algorithms, whether logical or statistical, on practical applications, and on scientific evaluation related to the processing of words and syntax Focus on the processing of natural language, not on speech Assumed background: Only for students who majored in computer science and have a solid working knowledge of automata and formal language theory A background in formal logic, in particular first order logic, will also be of value Pilon & Prinsloo

15. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: UNISA 25 November 2008; Cape Town COS461J : Natural Language Processing II Abbreviated syllabus: Regarding words: regular expressions and automata; morphology and finite-state transducers; n-grams; part- of-speech tagging Regarding syntax: formal grammars; parsing Regarding semantics: representation of meaning; lexical and computational lexical semantics. Regarding applications: question answering; summarisation Pilon & Prinsloo

16. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: Limpopo 25 November 2008; Cape Town COSC 702 Speech Technology Introduction to Speech Technology ASR (Automatic Speech Recognition) TTS (Text to Speech) Dialogue systems  Masters Continuation Part of Speech Technology Workshop Pilon & Prinsloo

17. Gerhard B van Huyssteen Post-graduate Teaching: NWU 25 November 2008; Cape Town Taal, Teks en Tegnologie (Language, Text and Technology) Part of Afrikaans & Dutch Honnours programme - aimed at Linguistic students Three modules from BA Language Technology Introduction to NLP Speech Applications Text Applications Pilon & Prinsloo

18. Gerhard B van Huyssteen 25 November 2008; Cape Town Thank you Dankie Re a leboga Siyabonga Pilon & Prinsloo