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Afrikaans and Dutch
Nov 08, 2021 - Available on the Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses The variety of Afrikaans that is spoken today originates from the Dutch, Malay and African languages spoken by early settlers in South Africa in the 1600s. Afrikaans is viewed by linguists as a young language. Its development began in the 17th century when Dutch …https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/creative-writing
Creative Writing
May 28, 2025 - Available on the Potchefstroom Campus [accordion collapsed] What is Creative Writing? Creative Writing entails the writing of creative texts such as short stories, poems, children’s stories and drama texts. It is a fully fledged graduate subject and is mainly selected by students majoring in languages. No specific entrance…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/english
English
Jun 18, 2020 - Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses The history of the English language really started with the arrival of three Germanic tribes who invaded Britain during the 5th century AD. So, English has its roots in the West Germanic languages of the Indo-European language family, from which German and Dutch also…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/french
French
Nov 08, 2021 - Available on the Mahikeng, Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses In 2020, la langue française, the language of love, is an official language in 32 countries and is spoken in more than 43 countries and by about 300 million people around the world, on every continent. There are more than 50 million people learning French in the…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/german
German
Nov 08, 2021 - Available on the Potchefstroom and Vanderbijlpark Campuses German is the language of scientists, inventors, philosophers, composers, artists, poets and authors. More than 100 Nobel Prizes have been awarded to German-speaking individuals who have distinguished themselves in the fields of physics, chemistry, physiology, medicine,…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/languages/contact-us
Contact us
Apr 25, 2024 - Mahikeng Physical address: Building, Room Mahikeng Campus Postal address: Private Bag X2046, Internal box 575 Mahikeng Campus North-West University Mmabatho 2735 Contact number: Tel: +27 18 389 2251/2908 Email mpho.chaka@nwu.ac.za Potchefstroom Physical address: Building E9, Room 109 Potchefstroom Campus…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/centre-text-technology/staff
Staff
Feb 26, 2025 - About Us We develop text technology resources and applications with a focus on innovative research with our national and international partners in HLT. The Centre for Text Technology (CTexT®) conducts research in the field of Human Language Technology (HLT) and develops language technology products for the South African…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/centre-text-technology/partners
Partners
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Language Technology
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Postgraduate study
Sep 03, 2021 - GENERAL INFORMATION All of following projects form part of larger projects at CTexT. Therefore you will be supervised by a lecturer from the faculty of Arts and/or Natural Sciences, as well as a researcher/engineer from CTexT. Machine translation for South African Languages Machine translation deals with the automatic…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/centre-text-technology/proofing-tools
Proofing tools
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Autshumato
Nov 08, 2021 - MACHINE TRANSLATION AND AUTSHUMATO Machine translation is the process of automatically translating one human language into another language by use of a computer system. A distinction can be made within the paradigm of machine translation between human-aided machine translation and machine-aided human translation. Machine-aided human…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/af/centre-text-technology/rma
RMA
Nov 08, 2021 - HULPBRONBESTUURSAGENTSKAP VIR SUID-AFRIKAANSE TALE Suid-Afrika spog nou met sy eie hulpbronbestuursagentskap (genoem die RMA) vir die bestuur en verspreiding van herbruikbare digitale teks- en spraakhulpbronne vir al die amptelike tale. Hierdie hulpbronne is van kardinale belang vir navorsing en ontwikkeling in die…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/creativitycentre
Creativity Centre Home
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Research and expertise
Sep 28, 2021 - RESEARCH AND EXPERTISE On June 1 2004 the Centre for Text Technology (CTexT) was established as a non-profit, self-supporting unit of the Research Unit: Languages and Literature in the South African Context in the Faculty of Arts at the North-West University (Potchefstroom Campus). CTexT is the instrument whereby the Research Unit…https://humanities.nwu.ac.za/philosophy