D J Prinsloo
Biographic Data
| ID | 6553716 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D J Prinsloo |
| GIVEN NAMES | D J |
| FAMILY NAME | Prinsloo |
| SIGNATURE | PRINSLOO D J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pretoria |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0054-4676 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi
A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a challenge in any text production situation. Feedback from target users indicated that there is a need for a computational writing assistant for the compilation and verification of correct constructions. To address this need, an …
Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins
Tribute to Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree is an evaluation of the value of a writing assistant for the copulative constructions in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). It reflects on the different static and dynamic constructions of the identifying, descriptive and associative copulative in the different verbal moods. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent the use of the Tree assisted users to express copulatives correctly. Data col…
A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi
The copulative construction in Sepedi is very complex, as is evident from the detailed and lengthy discussions that occur in standard grammar reference works of Sepedi. This article proposes a decision tree format to guide users through binary or multiple choices at various levels to choose the correct options and eventually arrive at the correct copulative construction. After a brief introduction to writing tools, the complexity of copulative co…
The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant
This article reports on an evaluation of the Sepedi Helper (http://www.sepedihelper.co.za/), an online writing assistant. The focus of the evaluation is on the verbal moods in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). The evaluation takes the form of a user study, and data collection was done by means of a questionnaire, administered to 81 first- and second-year students at a tertiary institution who do not have Sepedi as their strongest/home language. Analysis o…
Detection and lexicographic treatment of salient features in e-dictionaries for African languages1
As for many e-dictionaries across the globe, e-dictionaries for African languages embarked on the unfortunate route of being ‘paper dictionaries on computer’ often simply enhanced with additional search features or simply by perpetuating the practice followed in paper dictionaries of compiling e-dictionaries which are just translated word lists. In this article it will be argued that e-dictionaries for African languages should firstly be compiled…
Automated dictionary consultation for text reception
In the Amazon Kindle e-books, readers are automatically directed to a linked e-dictionary which enables the reader to obtain the meaning of the word without having to leave the book being read - the first three lines of the dictionary article are presented to the reader on the same screen as the open book. If this information is not sufficient to enable the reader to obtain the correct information to satisfy his/her information need, (s)he can fo…
Lexicography in Non‐European Languages
Lexicography in non‐European languages presents interesting challenges, some of which are illustrated in this overview of dictionary compilation for the Bantu languages, mainly from a South African perspective but equally applicable to Bantu lexicography on the continent of Africa as a whole.
Dictionary and corpus data in a common portal
Some recent dictionaries include corpus lines, links to concordances or to internet pages, or other links to dictionary-external data. Lexicographers present such external data to the user either to complement their lexicographic descriptions, or even instead of such lexicographically processed material, when the latter would be redundant to an authoritative source, or when it is simply not available. In this article, we critically review some di…
The quality, relevance and usefulness of ever-increasing amounts of internet data to lexicography – the case of Afrikaans
Article The quality, relevance and usefulness of ever-increasing amounts of internet data to lexicography – the case of Afrikaans was published on December 1, 2012 in the journal Lexicographica (volume 28, issue 2012)
Do dictionaries Define on the Level of their Target Users? A Case Study for Three Dutch Dictionaries
The aim of this article is to determine to what extent definitions in a range of monolingual dictionaries satisfy the needs of the specific age groups for which the respective dictionaries were compiled. More particularly, the aim is to determine whether dictionaries for young children, more advanced children, and adult users offer definitions on the appropriate competency levels of these categories of dictionary users. The investigation is conce…
Internet dictionaries for African languages
Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary
The aim of this article is to provide a perspective on lexicographic traditions, lemmatisation strategies and lemmatisation approaches in Bantu language dictionaries from a South African point of view. It will be argued that Bantu language lexicography reflects a complex interplay of lexicographic traditions and lemmatisation approaches. The focus will be on Sepedi1 – English dictionaries and on the analysis of the Oxford Northern Sotho School Di…
Left-expanded Article Structures in Bantu with Special Reference to isiZulu and Sepedi
The article gives a brief theoretical discussion of left-expanded microstructures. This approach is used to introduce the notion of left-expanded article structures. The latter is then described in some detail and employed as lemmatisation strategy for Bantu-language dictionaries. It will be argued, against the background of the user-perspective, that such a lemmatisation strategy has certain advantages over stem lemmatisation for conjunctively w…
Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary
The aim of this article is to provide a perspective on lexicographic traditions, lemmatisation strategies and lemmatisation approaches in Bantu language dictionaries from a South African point of view. It will be argued that Bantu language lexicography reflects a complex interplay of lexicographic traditions and lemmatisation approaches. The focus will be on Sepedi1 – English dictionaries and on the analysis of the Oxford Northern Sotho School Di…
Left-expanded Article Structures in Bantu with Special Reference to isiZulu and Sepedi
The article gives a brief theoretical discussion of left-expanded microstructures. This approach is used to introduce the notion of left-expanded article structures. The latter is then described in some detail and employed as lemmatisation strategy for Bantu-language dictionaries. It will be argued, against the background of the user-perspective, that such a lemmatisation strategy has certain advantages over stem lemmatisation for conjunctively w…
Left-expanded Article Structures in Bantu with Special Reference to isiZulu and Sepedi
The article gives a brief theoretical discussion of left-expanded microstructures. This approach is used to introduce the notion of left-expanded article structures. The latter is then described in some detail and employed as lemmatisation strategy for Bantu-language dictionaries. It will be argued, against the background of the user-perspective, that such a lemmatisation strategy has certain advantages over stem lemmatisation for conjunctively w…
Current Lexicography Practice in Bantu with Specific Reference to the Oxford Northern Sotho School Dictionary
The aim of this article is to provide a perspective on lexicographic traditions, lemmatisation strategies and lemmatisation approaches in Bantu language dictionaries from a South African point of view. It will be argued that Bantu language lexicography reflects a complex interplay of lexicographic traditions and lemmatisation approaches. The focus will be on Sepedi1 – English dictionaries and on the analysis of the Oxford Northern Sotho School Di…
Internet dictionaries for African languages
Do dictionaries Define on the Level of their Target Users? A Case Study for Three Dutch Dictionaries
The aim of this article is to determine to what extent definitions in a range of monolingual dictionaries satisfy the needs of the specific age groups for which the respective dictionaries were compiled. More particularly, the aim is to determine whether dictionaries for young children, more advanced children, and adult users offer definitions on the appropriate competency levels of these categories of dictionary users. The investigation is conce…
Lexicography in Non‐European Languages
Lexicography in non‐European languages presents interesting challenges, some of which are illustrated in this overview of dictionary compilation for the Bantu languages, mainly from a South African perspective but equally applicable to Bantu lexicography on the continent of Africa as a whole.
Dictionary and corpus data in a common portal
Some recent dictionaries include corpus lines, links to concordances or to internet pages, or other links to dictionary-external data. Lexicographers present such external data to the user either to complement their lexicographic descriptions, or even instead of such lexicographically processed material, when the latter would be redundant to an authoritative source, or when it is simply not available. In this article, we critically review some di…
The quality, relevance and usefulness of ever-increasing amounts of internet data to lexicography – the case of Afrikaans
Article The quality, relevance and usefulness of ever-increasing amounts of internet data to lexicography – the case of Afrikaans was published on December 1, 2012 in the journal Lexicographica (volume 28, issue 2012)
Automated dictionary consultation for text reception
In the Amazon Kindle e-books, readers are automatically directed to a linked e-dictionary which enables the reader to obtain the meaning of the word without having to leave the book being read - the first three lines of the dictionary article are presented to the reader on the same screen as the open book. If this information is not sufficient to enable the reader to obtain the correct information to satisfy his/her information need, (s)he can fo…
The Sepedi Helper Writing Assistant
This article reports on an evaluation of the Sepedi Helper (http://www.sepedihelper.co.za/), an online writing assistant. The focus of the evaluation is on the verbal moods in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). The evaluation takes the form of a user study, and data collection was done by means of a questionnaire, administered to 81 first- and second-year students at a tertiary institution who do not have Sepedi as their strongest/home language. Analysis o…
Detection and lexicographic treatment of salient features in e-dictionaries for African languages1
As for many e-dictionaries across the globe, e-dictionaries for African languages embarked on the unfortunate route of being ‘paper dictionaries on computer’ often simply enhanced with additional search features or simply by perpetuating the practice followed in paper dictionaries of compiling e-dictionaries which are just translated word lists. In this article it will be argued that e-dictionaries for African languages should firstly be compiled…
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree
User studies on the Sepedi Copulative Decision Tree is an evaluation of the value of a writing assistant for the copulative constructions in Sepedi (Northern Sotho). It reflects on the different static and dynamic constructions of the identifying, descriptive and associative copulative in the different verbal moods. The aim of this article is to determine to what extent the use of the Tree assisted users to express copulatives correctly. Data col…
A copulative decision tree as a writing tool for Sepedi
The copulative construction in Sepedi is very complex, as is evident from the detailed and lengthy discussions that occur in standard grammar reference works of Sepedi. This article proposes a decision tree format to guide users through binary or multiple choices at various levels to choose the correct options and eventually arrive at the correct copulative construction. After a brief introduction to writing tools, the complexity of copulative co…
A writing assistant en route to a full computational grammar for Sepedi
A detailed user study and observations by lecturers indicate that the correct compilation of sentences in the eight verbal moods as well as for a number of similar grammatically complicated constructions in Sepedi poses a challenge in any text production situation. Feedback from target users indicated that there is a need for a computational writing assistant for the compilation and verification of correct constructions. To address this need, an …
Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins
Tribute to Beryl T. (Sue) Atkins
Computer Science (13 works) · Linguistics (13 works) · Lexicography and Language Studies (12 works) · Natural Language Processing Techniques (9 works) · Natural language processing (7 works) · Artificial Intelligence (6 works) · Lexicography (5 works) · Mathematics (5 works) · Bantu languages (4 works) · Lexicographical order (4 works)