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CURRICULUM VITAE

JUSTUS CHRISTIAAN ROUX

February 2012

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CV / JC Roux – February 2012

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CONTENTS

1 Personal information

2 Education

3 Professional career

4 Positions / Committees

4.1 University related: Stellenbosch University / North-West University

4.2 Membership of national organizations/committees

4.3 Membership of international organizations/committees

4.4 Membership of editorial boards of academic journals

4.5 Membership of scientific committees

5 Special awards

6 Research grants / Larger travel grants

7 Publications

7.1 Scientific articles

7.2 Published conference proceedings (National and international)

7.3 Chapters in scientific books

7.4 Academic books

7.5 Research reports

8 Conference activities

8.1 Workshops / Conferences organized

8.1.1 National

8.1.2 International

8.2 Participation in workshops / conferences

8.2.1 National

8.2.2 International

8.3 Guest lectures / academic activities

9 Larger projects

9.1 Completed projects

9.2 Current projects

10 Teaching activities

10.1 Supervision: Completed and current MA studies

10.2 Supervision: Completed Doctoral studies (DLitt)

10.3 Teaching of specialized courses/advising theses in other faculties

10.4 External / internal examination

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1 PERSONAL INFORMATION

Surname: Roux First names: Justus Christiaan Gender : Male Date/place of birth: 15-01-1947, Brakpan, South Africa Citizenship: South African Civil status: Married

Professional Address : Centre for Text Technology North West University POTCHEFSTROOM 2120 South Africa Tel: (+27) (0)18 299 1567 Cell: 083 2888602 E-mail: [email protected] / [email protected]

Permanent address: 25 La Montagne Estate SOMERSET WEST South Africa

Language proficiency: Fluent in Afrikaans, English, German Various degrees of proficiency in, respectively, Setswana, Sepedi, Sesotho, isiXhosa, and isiZulu

Linguistic knowledge of SiSwati, TshiVenda, XiTsonga

National Research Foundation Researcher Rating: B2 (2003 - 2007) / C1 (2008 - 2012)

2 EDUCATION

1967: BA (Majors: Afrikaans-Dutch, Northern Sotho, Zulu), Potchefstroom University

1968: BA Hons (African languages) Potchefstroom University.

1971: MA (African languages) Potchefstroom University.

1979: DLitt (African languages / General Linguistics) Stellenbosch University.

Participation in specialised international training courses:

1984 Theory and practice of Suggestopedic teaching. Presenter Prof. Charles Schmidt, Lind Institute, San Francisco. Institute for Language Teaching of the University of Stellenbosch.

1984 Methods and Techniques of Accelerative Learning. Department of Continuing Education, University of Houston, Houston, USA.

1985 Educational Cognitive Styles - the development of creative thinking skills. Presenter Prof J Hand (USA) and Ms Beatrice Capdeville (Venezuela). Institute for Language Teaching of the University of Stellenbosch.

1986 Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, CUNY, New York. Training in computational linguistics with applications to human-machine communication systems (8 weeks)

1993 ELSNET Summer School on Prosody, University College, London. This course focused on ways of modeling speech in the development of text-to-speech systems.

1995 HLSYN - High level speech synthesis course, Mariefried, Sweden. (Presenter: KN Stevens, MIT) The aim of this course was to obtain skills in speech synthesis to be applied in the development of text-to-speech systems for the indigenous languages of Southern Africa.

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2001 XML Markup Technologies for working with linguistic data. Specialised Workshop presented by the Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh.

3 PROFESSIONAL CAREER

1969-1970: Junior Lecturer, Dept. of African Languages, Potchefstroom University for CHE, Potchefstroom.

1971: Lecturer, Dept. of African Languages, Potchefstroom University for CHE, Potchefstroom.

1972-1979: Lecturer, Dept. of African Languages, Stellenbosch University.

1980-1984: Senior Lecturer, Dept. of African Languages, Stellenbosch University.

1985-2002: Full professor (Ad hominem), Dept. of African Languages, Stellenbosch University.

1993-2004: Director: Research Unit for Experimental Phonology (RUEPUS), Department of African Languages, Stellenbosch University (NRF Unit).

1996: Visiting Professor: Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany (November). (Institute for Computational Linguistics).

1998-1999: Vice dean: Faculty of Arts, Stellenbosch University (also Sept-Dec 2001).

2002-2007: Professor (African Languages) Stellenbosch University. (Part time contract position)

2005 –2008: Director: Stellenbosch University Centre for Language and Speech Technology (SU-CLaST) (Contract position)

2005 - : Part time director and co-owner of CatchWord Language and Speech Technologies (Pty) Ltd (The University of Stellenbosch has a minority share in this spin-off company.

2009 - 2010: Part time Senior Researcher at SU-CLaST, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch. (Contract position)

2009 - 2011 -: Senior Researcher at CTexT, North-West University, Potchefstroom. (Contract position)

2011 – : Director: Research Unit for Languages and Literatures in the South African Context, North-West University, Potchefstroom. (Contract position – as from May 2011)

4 POSITIONS / COMMITTEES

4.1 University related: Stellenbosch University

• Departmental Chairperson: African Languages, 1982, 1986, 1988, 1992-1993; 1997-1999; 2000.

• Member of Faculty Committee (Executive), Faculty of Arts: 1983, 1984, 1996-7, 1998-99

• Member of Faculty Committee on student feedback: 1983-1985.

• Member of Senate sub committee for Language Laboratories: 1988-1990.

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• Chairperson, Committee for Language Laboratories: 1990, 1991, 1992.

• Visiting head, Private Students' Organization: 1974-1987.

• Member of Management Committee of the Institute for Language Teaching: 1986-1990.

o Chairperson, Management Committee of the Institute for Language Teaching: 1989-1990.

o Chairperson, various Project Committees of the Institute for Language Teaching: 1986-1990.

• Member of the Management Committee of the Bureau for Continuing Education: 1994-1995

• Member of Sub-committee A (Arts & Social Sciences) of the Research Committee of Stellenbosch University, 1994-1995; 1996-1999.

• Chairperson of the Management Committee for Computer Based Education in the Humanities, 1997-98

• Chairperson of the Management Committee for Computer Use in the Humanities (HUMARGA), 1999-2003

North-West University

• Member of Committee for Advanced Degrees, Research Unit for Language and Literature within the South African Context, 2009 - present.

• Member of the Executive Committee of the Research Unit for Language and Literature within the South African Context, 2011.

• Member of the Advisory Panel for NRF Researcher Rating (Humanities and Social Sciences), 2011.

4.2 Membership of national organizations/committees

• Member of the Academy of Science of South Africa, 2001- present

• Member of the Suid-Afrikaanse Akademie vir Wetenskap en Kuns: 1980- present

o Member of the Management Committee of Stellenbosch University: 1982-1991

o Member of National Faculty Board: 1989-1991.

• Member of the Academic Research Rating Panel for Language and Linguistics of the National Research Foundation (NRF). 2002.

• Chairperson of the South African Technical Committee for the Standardisation of Terminology and other resources SABS TC 37. 2003- 2006; Member 2007 -

o Member of South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Warsaw, Poland, 2005)

o Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Beijing, China, 2006.)

o Member of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC 37 (Provo, USA, 2007)

o Head of the South African delegation to Annual International Meeting of ISO TC37 (Dublin, Ireland, 2010)

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• Member of Steering Committee for Language and Information Technology (L&IT) development in South Africa. Department of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology (DACST) and the Pan South African Language Board. (PANSALB). 2000

• Co-ordinator of the Advisory Panel on Human Language Technology Development in South Africa, appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. 2001 – 2002.

• Member of the Steering Committee for Human Language Technologies Implementation appointed by the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology. 2003 – (2009).

• Member of HLT Expert Panel (HLTEP) nominated by the Minister of the Department of Arts and Culture (DAC) for a period of five years to assist DAC in deploying HLT Research and Development projects in South Africa. (2009 – 2013)

• Co-ordinator of a Task Team to develop a Blueprint for a Resource Management Agency for the National Centre for Human Language Technologies (NCHLT-RMA) appointed by the Minister of the Department of Arts and Culture. (2010).

• Member of Selection Committee of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) on Modern Languages, Arts and Information Science, responsible for adjudication of national research and travel grants: 1989, 1990.

• Member of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA): 1980- present

o Chairperson, Western Cape chapter of ALASA: 1980, 1984-1988.

o Adjudicator for ALASA prizes for various publishers, 1986

o Member of the Board and Executive of ALASA: 1986-1989, 1995-1997

o Secretary to the National Executive of ALASA 1995-1997.

• Member of the Linguistic Society of South Africa (LSSA): 1981-2004

• Member of the Management Committee of the National Working Group on Computational Linguistics, functioning under the auspices of the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC): 1989-1991.

• Chairperson of Special Interest Group on Laboratory Phonology functioning under the auspices of the African Languages Society of Southern Africa: 1993.

• Founder Member of the South African Foundation for Language and Speech Technology Development (SAFLAST): 1999. (Discontinued activities in 2004).

• Founder member of the Special Interest Group for Language and Speech Technology of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA-SIG). 1999 -

• Vice-president of the African HLT Association (2010-2013 - Detail to be confirmed.)

4.3 Membership of international organizations/committees

• Member of the International Phonetic Association (IPA): 1980- present

• Member of the Permanent Council for the Organisation of the International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS) 2007 – present. (This is the most representative conference in the field of phonetic sciences and takes place every fourth year.)

• Member of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA); 2000-

o Member of the International Affairs Committee of ISCA

o Co-ordinator of the ISCA Sub-committee on Africa. 2006-2009

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• Official South African representative of the Data Category Registration (DCR) Board of the International Standards Organisation (ISO) Technical Committee 37. 2008 - present

• Management member of the International Committee for the Co-ordination and Standardisation of Speech Databases and Assessment Techniques (COCOSDA). 2000- present

o Representative for Africa within Cocosda

• Founder member of the International Committee for Written Language Resources (WRITE). Pisa/Paris 2002 (as output of an EU funded project, under the leadership of the University of Pisa).

• Invited member of the International Advisory Group of the International Standards Organization (ISO/TC37) Committee (SC4) for Language Resources Management. 2002. (Gran Canaria).

• Invited member of the German-African Network of Alumni on Multilingualism and Language Politics in Africa established by the University of Leipzig, Germany and sponsored by the Deutsche Akademische Austausch Dienst (DAAD). (2008 - )

• Coordinator of the International Group for Human Language Technologies in Africa, set up by representatives at the Alexander von Humboldt Kolleg “Human Language Technologies in Africa, Rabat, Morocco (June 2008)

• Invited member to UNESCO Expert Panel for establishing a Cyber Network for Language Learning, Beijing, China (March 2009) and member of final report drafting team, Shanghai (May 2009).

• Invited as South African International Contact Point for the FLaReNet (Fostering Language Resources Network) project funded by the European Commission, France / Italy. (2010)

• Invited evaluator by the Dutch Language Union (Nederlandse Taalunie) for the final evaluation of the Dutch-Flemish HLT-program (STEVIN) (March, 2010).

• Member of the International Advisory Board of CLARIN EU network project (2010-).

4.4 Membership of editorial boards of academic journals

• Member of editorial committee of Journal of the International Phonetic Association (JIPA). 1998- present.

• Guest co-editor of two Special Editions on Human Language Technologies of the South African Journal of African Languages, Volume 25 No. 1 and No. 2,. 2006.

• Member of the editorial committee of the South African Journal for African Languages. 2006.

• Ombudsman: South African Journal of African Languages, 2007 – present.

4.5 Membership of scientific committees

Invited adjudicator of international conference papers and proceedings, as member of respective Scientific Committees:

• 14th

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, USA. 1999.

• 8th

Australian International Conference of Speech Science and Technology – SST 2000. Adelaide, Australia. 2000.

• 2nd

SPECOM Conference on Language and Speech Processing, Moscow. 2003.

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• 4th

International Conference on Language Resources and Management (LREC 2004), Lisbon. 2004.

• 36th

Poznan Linguistic Meeting, Poznan, Poland. 2005.

• 2nd

Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Technologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland. 2005.

• 13th

International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) – Special Interest Group Track: Human Language Technologies, University of Johannesburg. 2005.

• 5th

International Conference on Language Resources and Management (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy. 2006.

• 3rd

Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland. 2007

• 6th

International Conference on Language Resources and Management (LREC 2008), Marrakech, Morocco, May 2008.

• Special Speech Technology Conference sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation (Germany), Rabat, Morocco, 5-7 June 2008.

• International Symposium on Technical Translation and Terminology for Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Ankara, Turkey, 12-13 November 2009.

• 7th

International Conference on Language Resources and Management (LREC 2010), Valletta, Malta, May 2010.

• AFLAT Workshop at LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta, May, 2010.

• 17th

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS 2011), Hong Kong, 16-22 August 2011.

• LTC’ 11 5th

Language and Technology Conference: Human Language Terchnologies as a Challenge for Computer Science and Linguistics, Poznan, Poland 25-27 November 2011.

5 SPECIAL AWARDS

1982 Stipendium of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, for research at the Institut für Kommunikationsforschung und Phonetik, Bonn., Germany. (Nine months.)

1987 Renewal Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for interdisciplinary research at the Fraunhofer Institut für Artbeitswirtschaft und Organisation, in Stuttgart, Germany for the project: The development of a text-to-speech system for Xhosa. (Seven months)

1994 Renewal Grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung for interdisciplinary research at the Institut für Maschinelle Sprachverarbeitung, Universität Stuttgart, Germany for the project: The phonetics and phonology of click articulations in Nguni. (Four months)

1996 Winner of the Via Afrika Publishers` Prize of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA) for best publication in African Linguistics in South Africa in 1995.

1999 Recipient of Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research, University of Stellenbosch.

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2010 Recipient of Certificate of Acknowledgement of Leadership in International Research from Vice-Chancellor, North-West University (Sertifikaat van erkenning vir leierskap in internasionale navorsing.)

2011 Awarded life membership of the International Phonetics Association (IPA)

6 RESEARCH GRANTS & LARGER TRAVEL GRANTS

Research grants

1978 Ad-hoc grant of HSRC to finalise doctoral dissertation: Labialization in Sesotho: The role of experimental phonetic data in phonological analyses.

1980 Senior research grant of the HSRC for project: Vowel quality, tone and consonantal influences in Sotho.

1981 Harry Crossley Research Grant, Stellenbosch University for overseas research.

1983 Research grant of the Research Committee, Stellenbosch University for the project: The tonology of monosyllabic and bisyllabic noun stems in Xhosa.

1985 Larger grant from the Renewal Fund of Stellenbosch University to upgrade phonetics laboratory.

1985 Research grant of the Research Committee, University of Stellenbosch for the project: Tonal depression in Xhosa.

1986-9 Grant from the Research Committee, Stellenbosch University for a four year position of a research assistant for the project: An acoustical and perceptual analysis of phonetic elements in the sound system of Sesotho, Setswana and Northern Sotho.

1986-9 HSRC grant for Larger Research Projects for the project: An acoustic-perceptual analysis of phonetic elements in the sound system of Xhosa.

1990 HSRC grant for Larger Research Projects for the project: Aspects of the prosodic structure of Xhosa: an experimental phonetic investigation.

1994 Grant from the HSRC (Centre for Science Development) and Stellenbosch University to establish the Research Unit for Experimental Phonology (RUEPUS).

1997 Renewal of HSRC /CSD and Stellenbosch University grant for the continuation of the activities of the Research Unit for Experimental Phonology following international peer evaluation.

1998/9 Award by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation to host a German post doctoral fellow under the Feodor Lynen Programme. (With further financial contribution of Stellenbosch University).

1999/00 Recipient of CSD research intern grant for an appointment in the Research Unit for Experimental Phonology.

2000 Recipient of research and development grant from Innovation Fund of the Department of Arts,Culture, Science and Technology of the South African Government (DACST) (Value: R9,07 million

2005 Recipient of Special Research Grant for HLT research on code-mixing from the Department of Science and Technology (DST) (Value: R1 million)

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2006 Co-recipient of research grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) on Language learning technologies. (Value: R300 000 of R1 million). Other recipients: Meraka Institute & Pretoria University.

2006 Recipient of research grant in terms of the South-African / Japanese Research Partnership Programme for a joint project on High quality text-to-speech synthesis for African tone languages, with Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute (ATR),

Kyoto, Japan. (Value R600 000)

2007 Recipient of research and development grant from the Royal Danish Government (Danida) for international consortium project MELFA: Mobile E-learning for Africa including the University of Copenhagen (Value R3,68 million)

2008 Award by the University of Stellenbosch for the appointment of post-doctoral scholar (Dr Hugues S Ndinga-Koumba-Binza) (2008-2009)

2010 Recipient of research grant from the National Research Foundation (NRF) for Rated researchers (2010-2012) (Value: R120 000).

2010 Award by the University of the North-West for the appointment of post-doctoral scholar (Dr Hugues S Ndinga-Koumba-Binza) (2010 -2013)

[Total amount personally raised for research purposes since 2000 : R15,370 million]

Travel grants

1980 Travel grant, Rector's Fund, Stellenbosch University: academic visits to phonetics laboratories in England and Germany.

1983 Travel grant, Rector's Fund, Stellenbosch University: academic visits to phonetics laboratories in Japan.

1983 Travel Grant, HSRC to take part in the World Conference of Phoneticians in Kobe, Japan. Special grant from Phonetic Society of Japan.

1984 Travel grant, Rector's Fund, Stellenbosch University: academic visits to phonetics laboratories in the United States of America.

1987 Travel grant of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for study visits to various institutions in Europe.

1991 HSRC travel grant for overseas conference attendance: Aix-en-Provence, France.

1993 HSRC travel grant for attendance of ELSNET Summer School on Prosody, University College of London, London.

1997 Travel grant from Stellenbosch University for the presentation of two academic papers at international conferences in, respectively, Paris and Leipzig (July/August).

2000 & 2002 Recipient of an international grant of the Japanese Government through the Institute for the Study of Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa, Tokyo University, for invited participation in a biennial international workshop. Fifteen experts in the field of phonetics / phonology / tonology were invited to deliver position papers to which fifteen other international participants were to respond. In 2000 I acted as respondent and in 2002 I delivered a position paper.

2000 Recipient of international travel grant from DACST, South African National Government, to participate in an International workshop in Toulouse, France.

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2002 Recipient of two European Union (EU) travel grants to participate as advisor in an FP funded EU research project (ENABLER) in respectively, Berlin, Germany (October) and Pisa, Italy (December).

2003 Recipient a European Union (EU) travel grant to participate as advisor in an FP funded EU research project (ENABLER) in Paris (August).

2004 Recipient of full travel and accommodation grant from UNESCO / World Bank / Carnegie Mellon University to chair a special workshop session on ICT and Education at the Bangalore Workshop on ICT for Sustainable Development, Bangalore, India (January).

2009 Recipient of full travel and accommodation grants from UNESCO / Peoples Republic of China to present (i) a position paper at Meeting of Panel of Experts in Beijing (March) and (ii) as member of final project drafting team in Shanghai, China (May).

2010 Recipient of travel and accommodation grant from AFLAT to present a guest lecture at the 2

nd AFLAT Workshop on African Language Technology, Valetta, Malta (May).

7 PUBLICATIONS

7.1 Scientific articles (36) (* denotes accredited journals)

1976 A feature [labial]: Motivation from Sesotho, Taalfasette 24.2: 38-50. (In Afrikaans)

1978 Phonetic data and phonological analyses, Taalfasette 26.2: 64-76. (In Afrikaans)

1978 Phonetic data and phonological analyses, Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics (SPIL) 1:105-133. (Revised and extended English version.)

1979 Introduction to the sound system of Xhosa, Stellenbosch Studies in African Languages 2: 80-120 (In Afrikaans.)

1979 Experimental techniques and the verification of phonetic data, Taalfasette 27.2: 1-20. (In Afrikaans.)

1979 Acoustic aspects of labialization in Sesotho, Stellenbosch Studies in African Languages 3: 90-117.

1980 Labialization in Sesotho, Humanitas 6.3: 331-332

1981 Practical Phonetics for Language Students: An Evaluation, SPIL PLUS* 5: 7-43. (In Afrikaans.)

1982 On vowel identification and phonological theory, SPIL 8: 79-93.

1984 Linguistic theories and the vowels of Sotho", Stellenbosch Studies in African Languages 1: 46 -85. (In Afrikaans.)

1984 An acoustic and perceptual analysis of the vowels of Sesotho, Stellenbosch Studies in African Languages 2: 53 - 130, Stellenbosch. (In Afrikaans.)

1985* SALT and the teaching of African Languages, PER LINGUAM 1,1: 9-10

1985 Music and the teaching of Xhosa, an African tone language, Journal of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, 10.3, Ames, Iowa.

1986* Computer-assisted phonetic research in African Languages, South African Journal of African Languages 6.1: 42-45

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1989* An acoustic and perceptual analysis of Xhosa vowels, South African Journal of African Languages 9.1: 30-34 (co-author, A J Holtzhausen)

1989* Grapheme to phoneme conversions in Xhosa, South African Journal of African Languages 9.2: 74-78.

1989* Speech processing and linguistic explanations, South African Journal of Linguistics 7.4: 154-162.

1990* Devocalization in Xhosa: a reinterpretation, South African Journal of African Languages 10.3: 109-117 (co-author, H Brand) (In Afrikaans.)

1990* Alternative literacy training for business and industry, PER LINGUAM 6.1: 3-22.

1991* On the integration of phonetics and phonology, South African Journal of Linguistics, 11: 34-52.

1995* Prosodic data and phonological analyses in Zulu and Xhosa in South African Journal of African Languages 15.1, 1-10

1995* On the perception and production of tone in Xhosa in South African Journal of African Languages 15.4:196-204

1996* A phonological process analysis of the acquisition and loss of clicks in Xhosa in South African Journal of African Languages* 16.1:1-9 (co-author with P Lewis)

1996* Phonetic motivation for phonological processes: Labiodental assimilations in Xhosa. South African Journal of Linguistics, 31:139-151 (Co-author: B Ntlabezo)

1998* Queclaratives in Xhosa: An acoustical analysis. South African Journal of Linguistics, Supplement 36, 3-18. (Co-authors: J Jones & J Louw)

1998* Perceptual experiments on queclaratives in Xhosa. South African Journal of Linguistics, Supplement 36, 19-32. (Co-authors: J Jones & J Louw)

1998* Xhosa: A tone or pitch-accent language? South African Journal of Linguistics, Supplement 36, 33- 50.

1998* On Xhosa L2 speech and intelligibility: vowels and clicks. South African Journal of Linguistics*, Supplement 36, 51-63. (Co-author: P Lewis)

1998* Front vowel variation in Tswana. . South African Journal of Linguistics, Supplement 36, 93-103. (Co-authors: DP Wissing & R Pretorius)

2001* Black South African English (BSAE) and Speech Technology applications. South African Journal of Linguistics, Supplement 38 (Co-author P Louw)

2002* Voice quality differences associated with stops and clicks in Xhosa. Journal of Phonetics* 30, 1-52. ElsevierScience Ltd (Co author, Michael Jessen).

2004* An acoustic and perceptual analysis of queclaratives in Xhosa, in the South African Journal for African Languages, Vol 23.4, pp 223-236 (co-author, J Jones)

2005* Porting an English spoken dialogue system to Xhosa and Zulu. South African Journal of African Languages, Volume 25.2, pp 101-123 (Co-authors: Niesler, TR, Louw, PH, Malaza, T * Martins, L.)

2008* Unresolved issues in the representation and phonetic description of click articulations in Xhosa and Zulu. Language Matters Vol 38 (1) pp 8 -25 (ISSN: 0256-5986)

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2009* The representation of vowel duration in Civili dictionaries. Lexikos 19, 197-206 (Co-author: HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)

2009* Perceived duration in vowel-length based Civili minimal pairs. South African Journal of African Languages 29 (2): 216-226 (Co-author: HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)..

7.2 Published conference proceedings (38)

7.2.1 National (9)

1980 The vowel system of Southern Sotho revisited, Miscellanea Congregalia 12 : 274-288, P.J. Wentzel (ed), UNISA, Pretoria

1981 Distinctive features and homorganic nasal assimilation, Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA) Conference Papers, pp. 333 -342, A.J.L. Sinclair (ed), U.W.C., Bellville.

1984 Speech synthesis and analysis by means of the computer, Conference Papers LSSA , V. Webb (ed), pp. 553 - 565, University of Pretoria. (In Afrikaans.)

1988 Speech processing from a linguistic point of view, IEEE South African Workshop on Speech Processing, Stellenbosch University, pp. 1-12. (In Afrikaans.)

1995 Voice assimilation in Tswana-Afrikaans: A phonetic solution for a phonological problem. SA Linguistics, EF Kotze (Ed). Port Elizabeth: University Press. 262-268 (co-author DP Wissing)

2000 Synthesizing prosody for commands in a Xhosa TTS system. (co-authors PH Louw, EC Botha) Proceedings of the 11

th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition

Association of South Africa (PRASA), 7-10. Johannesburg: University of the Witwatersrand

2001 Natural language understanding in the DACST-AST dialog system (co-author TR Niesler) Proceedings of the 12

th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of

South Africa (PRASA), University of Pretoria. pp 134-137.

2001 African Speech Technology telephone speech databases: Corpus design, content and early validation statistics (co-authors PH Louw, EC Botha) Proceedings of the 12

th Annual

Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA), University of Pretoria. pp. 115-119.

2004 Technology and Multilingualism. Proceedings of the Parliamentary Conference on Multilingualism, Parliament of the Republic of South Africa, Cape Town, C Cgasamba, pp 26-30.

7.2.2 International (28)

1981 On the notion: Phonologization, in PHONOLOGICA 1980: Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, W. Dressler, et al (eds), Innsbruck, pp. 373-378

1983 On the perception of vowel tone and vowel quality, Handbook of the 10th World Congress of Phoneticians , p. 45, Kobe, Japan.

1991 On ingressive glottalic and velaric articulations in Xhosa, Proceedings of the XIIth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, pp. 158-161, Aix-en-Provence.

1995 The interrelationship between VOT and voice assimilation. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95, Stockholm, Sweden, vol 1: 50-53 (co-author D Wissing)

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1995 An articulatory description of clicks by means of electromagnetic articulography. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95, Stockholm, Sweden, vol 1: 50-53 (co-authors G Scharf, I Hertrich, G Dogil)

1995 Click articulations in Xhosa: New perspectives through Wigner Distribution Analysis. Proceedings of the 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95, Stockholm, Sweden, vol 2: 574-577 (co-authors G Dogil, W Wokurek)

1996 Speech coding and apraxic speech. Proceedings of the International Conference of Clinical Linguistics, München. (Co-authors G Dogil, J Mayer, P Mavimbela & S Tuomi).

1996 Notes on unencoded speech: Clicks and their accompaniments in Xhosa. Proceedings of the Sixth Australian International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, SST-96. (Ed P McCormack & A Russel), 55-60.

1998 Dogil, G, Mayer, J & Roux, JC. Syllables and unencoded speech: Clicks and their accompaniments n Xhosa. In PHONOLOGICA 96: Syllables?! Eds. J Rennison & K Kuhnhämmer. The Hague: Holland Academic Graphics. 49-60.

1998 On the phonetic representation of clicks: Some experimental phonetic considerations Proceedings of the 16

th International Conference of Linguists. (ed B Caron), CNRS,

Paris

1998 SASPEECH: Establishing speech resources for the indigenous languages of South Africa. Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. (eds A Rubio et al). Granada, Spain. European Language Resources Association – ELRA. Vol 1, 343-350.

1999 On Xhosa L2 speech and intelligibility: vowels and clicks. (co-author: P Lewis) Proceedings of the 14

th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco,

USA; Regents of the University of California. CD-ROM format.

2000 Developing a multilingual telephone based information retrieval system in African languages (co-authors EC Botha, JA du Preez) Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece. ELRA, vol 2, also available in CD-ROM format.

2000 Synthesizing prosody for commands in a Xhosa TTS system. (co-authors PH Louw, EC Botha) Proceedings of the 6

th International Conference on Spoken Language

Processing (ICSLP 2000), Beijing, China, Vol 3: 263-266. (Also available in CD-ROM format.)

2000 Black South African English (BSAE) and speech technology applications (co-author P Swart), Workshop on Black South African English, International Conference on Linguistics in South Africa, 46-51, University of Cape Town.

2001 Zulu Tonology and its relationship to other Nguni languages: A reply to Kisseberth and Cassimjee - The empirical status of tonal data. Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Cross linguistic studies of Tonal Phenomena, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Ed S Kaji , pp 361-368.

2001 HLT development in as African context: Planning for the next decade in South Africa, Proceedings of the Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management, 39

th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics,

Toulouse, France, pp 25-32.

2001 The African Speech Technology Project: Challenges for the collection of speech data bases. COCOSDA Workshop: Language Resources and Technology Evaluation, Aalborg, Denmark, p.14-15.

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2001 Telephone speech databases: Corpus design and contents (co-authors PH Louw & EC Botha) Proceedings of Eurospeech 2001, 2005-2058 Aalborg, Denmark.

2003 Developing Human Language Technologies in South Africa: Challenges and proposals. Conference proceedings of the 6

th International TAMA conference, Department of Arts

and Culture, Pretoria. pp 149-155

2003 On the perception and production of tone in the Sotho and Nguni languages. Zulu. Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Cross linguistic studies of Tonal Phenomena, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, Tokyo Ed S Kaji, pp. 155-176

2004 The African Speech Technology Project: An Assessment. Proceedings of the 4th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2004), Lisbon, pp 93-93. (Co-authors, T Niesler & P Louw)

2004 Promoting Language and Speech Technologies in a Developing Continent. Proceedings of the International Workshop on Speech and Computer, SPEECOM 203, Moscow State Linguistic University, Russia, pp 68-74.

2005 Accent variation in South African English: Challenges for speech recognition systems. Proceedings of the Second Language and Technology Conference, Poznan, Poland. 2005: 15-19. (co-authors De Villiers, E, Du Preez, JA)

2006 Language resources and tools in Southern Africa, Proceedings of the 5th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2006), Workshop on Networking the development of language resources for African languages, Genoa, Italy, pp 11-16. (Co-author: SE Bosch)

2007 Data-driven approach to rapid prototyping Xhosa speech synthesis, Proceedings of the 6th

ISCA Speech Synthesis Workshop, Bonn, Germany, pp 143-147. (Co-author: AS Visagie)

2010 Incorporating speech synthesis in the development of a mobile platform for e-learning, Proceedings of LREC 2010, Valletta, Malta, pp 1507-1510. (Co-authors, P Scholtz, D Klop, C Povlsen, B Jongejan, A Magnusdottir) (http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2010/index.html)

2010 Speech Synthesis in the mobile user interface. SSW7: The 7th

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Kyoto, Japan, pp 328-331. (Co-authors, P Scholtz & J du Toit) (http://ssw7.org/doc/ssw7_proceedings_rev.pdf)

7.3 Chapters in scientific books (6)

1984 Phonetics, phonology and the computer, in G.S. NIENABER - 'N HULDIGING, A.J.L Sinclair (ed), pp. 463-470, University of the Western Cape. (In Afrikaans.)

1988 Computer applications in phonetics and phonology, in LEXINET - TEXTNET: Computer Applications in Linguistics, V. Webb, T. Bothma & R. Morris (eds), Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria, pp.8-19. (In Afrikaans.)

1999 Queclaratives in Xhosa, in African Mosaic, ed R Finlayson, Unisa Press (co-author, J Jones)

2005* Human Language Technology Initiatives in South Africa (A critical appraisal), Multilingualism and Electronic Information Management, Van Schaik, 2005, 24-40. (co-author T Du Plessis)

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2005* The acquisition and annotation of multilingual speech databases for the development of interface applications. Multilingualism and Electronic Information Management, Van Schaik, 2005, 161-168 (co-author PH Louw)

7.4 Academic books (1)

1998 Otto Dempwolff: Induktiver Aufbau des Urbantu, Rüdiger Köppe Verlag, Köln (co-author L Gerhard).

7.5 Research reports (9)

1983 Vowel quality, tone and consonantal influences in Sotho, Senior Research project, HSRC, Pretoria, pp. 123. (In Afrikaans.)

1986 Automatic language recognition, (co-author, M W Coetzer), Institute for Electronics, Stellenbosch University, pp.163. (In Afrikaans.)

1988 LEXINET - AILANG: Artificial Intelligence and the processing of natural language, HSRC-Report, Pretoria, pp. 54. (In Afrikaans.)

1990 Acoustic perceptual analyses of phonetic elements in the sound system of Xhosa, Senior Research project, HSRC, Pretoria, pp. 256. (In Afrikaans.)

1993 Aspects of tonal perception in Nguni, Senior Research project, HSRC (CSD), Pretoria, pp 40.

2004 The African Speech Technology Project: Final Report to the Innovation Fund (NRF) pp 56. Editor of 35 Technical Reports of the AST project during the period 2000 – 2003.

2006 Automated Multilingual Telephone Access to Financial Services: Final Report to Dept of Science and Technology (June.)

2009 High quality speech synthesis in African tone languages. Final report to Department of Science and Technology (January).

2010 Blueprint for NCHLT Resource Management Agency. Commissioned report to the Department of Arts and Culture (January) (Co-authors: GB van Huyssteen, ML Mojapelo & T Gumede.)

8 CONFERENCE ACTIVITIES

8.1 Workshops / Conferences organised (16)

8.1.1 National (7)

1995 Organiser of Workshop on language and speech interference in Southern Africa, Potchefstroom University, (Co-presenter, Prof DP Wissing).

1996 Organiser of Colloquium on Language Resources and Technology, at the University of South Africa (Co-presenter, Prof G Dogil, Stuttgart, Germany).

1997 Organiser of Colloquium on The Phonetics of Phonology, at Stellenbosch University (Co-presenter, Prof JJ Ohala, Berkeley)

1997 Organiser of Colloquium on The Phonetics of Phonology, at the University of Venda, Thohoyandou. (Co-presenter, Prof JJ Ohala, Berkeley, USA)

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1998 Organiser of Colloquium on Human-machine communication systems, at the University of Transkei, Umtata.

2001 Organiser of Workshop on Computational Morphological Analysis, for ALASA-SIG for Language and Speech Technology, Stellenbosch University

2003 Organiser and facilitator of State Information Technology (SITA) Workshop: HLT Research Roadmap, Pretoria.


1992 Organiser and chairperson of international workshop on "Laboratory Phonology in Southern Africa" at the 7

th International Conference of the African Languages

Association of Southern Africa, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

1995 Conference Organiser: 8th International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), Stellenbosch University.

1995 Workshop Organiser and co-presenter of two-day workshop on Issues in Bantu Tonology at the 8th International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa, Stellenbosch University.

1997 Organiser and presenter of two-day workshop on Teaching phonetics and phonology at the 9th International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa, University of Natal, Durban

1999 Organiser and presenter of two-day workshop on Language Technologies at the 10th

International Biennial Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria.

2003 Organiser of one-day Workshop on Language and Speech Processing at the 12th

International Biennial Conference of ALASA, Stellenbosch University.

2006 Chair of Organising Committee of MULTILING 2006: a technical workshop on speech processing of the International Speech Communication Association (ISCA), Stellenbosch.

2006 Co-organiser of a workshop on Networking the development of language resources for African languages at the 5

th International Conference on Language Resources and

Management (LREC 2006), Genoa, Italy.

2008 Co-organiser (with Prof Abdelahi Soudi, Ecole Nationale de l'Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco) of Special Conference on Speech Technology fully sponsored by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, in Rabat, Morocco. 3-5 June 2008.

8.2 Participation in workshops / conferences (108)

8.2.1 National (39)

1976 Twelfth Congress of the Linguistic Society of Southern Africa (LSSA), Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg. (Paper.)

1979 Fifteenth Congress of LSSA, Stellenbosch University. (Main plenary paper on invitation.)

1981 Seventeenth Congress of LSSA, University of the Western Cape, Bellville. (Paper.)

1982 Regional Conference of ALASA, Stellenbosch University. (Paper.)

1984 Twentieth Congress of LSSA, University of Pretoria, Pretoria. (Paper.)

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1986 South African Society for Learning Disabilities, University of the Western Cape, Bellville. (Two day workshop on accelerative language learning techniques)


1988 Regional Conference of ALASA, University of Zululand, KwaZulu. (Paper.)

1988 National Workshop on Speech Processing, South African chapter of the Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineering (IEEE), Stellenbosch University. (Paper.)

1989 LEXINET Symposium of the Human Sciences Research Council on natural language processing, Pretoria. (Paper.)

1989 Symposium of the National Working Group for Computer Linguistics, Human Sciences Research Council, Pretoria. (Paper.)

1989 25th Conference of the LSSA, HSRC, Pretoria. (Paper and demonstration.)


1996 National Conference of ALASA, Rand Afrikaans University, Johannesburg. (Paper.)

1996 Regional Conference of ALASA, University of Western Cape, Bellville. (Paper)

1996 Regional Conference of ALASA, University of South Africa, Pretoria (Demonstration lecture)

1996 National Conference of Language Task Group of South Africa (LANGTAG), CSIR Centre, Pretoria (position paper).

1997 National Workshop on Speech, Text and Technology: Human-machine interaction in South Africa. University of Cape Town (two papers)

1998 National Conference of the Linguistic Society of South Africa, University of Potchefstroom (Joint paper)

1998 National Conference of ALASA, Potchefstroom University, Potchefstroom. (Paper.)

1999 National Seminar of the South African Translators` Institute. ESKOM. Midrand. (Paper on invitation).

2000 2nd

National Language Indaba, DACST, Durban. (Paper on invitation).

2000 11th

Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA). (Co-author of presentation). Broederstroom.

2001 South African Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, University of Pretoria. (Paper).

2001 Research and training workshop on HLT, AST and ALASA SIG, Unisa, Pretoria

2001 12th

Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa (PRASA). (Co-author of two presentations). Franschhoek.

2001 Workshop on Computational Morphological Analysis, ALASA-SIG, University of South Africa, Pretoria (February) / Stellenbosch (October) (Paper)

2002 Annual conference of the Pan South African Language Board (PANSALB), Pretoria, CSIR Centre

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2002 Presentation on Human Language Technologies at Workshop on HLT of the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), Pretoria.

2002 Afrilex 2002 Annual Conference, Rhodes University, Grahamstown (Paper on invitation)

2002 African Renaissance Conference, Hammanskraal (Paper on invitation).

2003 Launch conference on isiXhosa Parliamentary Terminology, Cape Town. (Paper on invitation).

2004 Parliamentory Conference on Multilingualism, Cape Town (Paper on invitation)

2005 Workshop on HLT Roadmapping for South Africa, Department of Science and Technology, CSIR, Pretoria (Invited plenary lecture)

2007 Launch workshop on Speech Self Service in Business and Industry, Dimension Data Campus, Johannesburg (Invited plenary lecture.)

2007 Tweede Nasionale Taalberaad (Second National Language Convention), University of Pretoria (Invited plenary lecture, with G van Huyssteen).

2008 National Language Forum, Department of Arts and Culture, Pretoria. (Invited presentation: Functions and tasks of a National Resource Centre for Human Language Technologies.) (August).

2008 National Workshop of SABS TC37, Pretoria. (Invited presentation: HLT in South Africa: Towards a legal framework for language resources.) (October).

2010 National Workshop of SABS TC37, Pretoria. (Presentation: The activities of SC4) (February). (Co-presentation with Sonja Bosch).


1978 First International Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), University of South Africa, Pretoria. (Paper.)

1980 Phonologie Tagung: Fourth International Phonology Meeting, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria. (Paper.)

1983 Tenth World Conference of Phoneticians, Kobe, Japan. (Paper; invited chairman sectional meeting.)

1984 Ninth International Conference of the Society for Accelerative Learning and Teaching, Houston, USA. (Paper.)

1985 Third International Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. (Paper.)

1987 European Conference on Speech Technology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland.

1989 Fifth International Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), University of Pretoria, Pretoria. (Paper.)

1989 Convention of the International Phonetic Association (IPA), Kiel, German (Presentation.)

1991 Sixth International Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), University of Port Elizabeth, Port Elizabeth. (Paper.)

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1991 Twelfth International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, Aix-en-Provence, France. (Paper.)

1993 Seventh International Conference of the African Languages Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. (Paper & Presenter of Workshop on Laboratory Phonology)

1994 First World Congress of African Linguistics, Kwaluseni, Swaziland. (Paper)

1994 International Phonology Conference on Optimality Theory, Durham, England.

1994 CATH94: Developing courseware for interactive computer-assisted learning and teaching, Glasgow, Scotland.

1994 4th International Conference on Natural Language Processing, University of Stuttgart, Germany.

1995 13th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, ICPhS 95, Stockholm, Sweden. (One paper plus one paper and one poster session as co-author).

1996 HSRC International symposium on culture, communication and development, HSRC (under the auspices of UNESCO), Pretoria. (Paper.)

1996 The Third International Conference of the Third World Science, Technology and Development Forum. University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg. (Paper)

1996 The 8th International Phonology Meeting, University of Vienna, Vienna. (One paper plus one paper as co-author.)

1996 One-day Workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, Hungarian Academy of Science, Budapest. (Invited keynote.) (Organiser: Prof M Gosy)

1996 The 6th International Conference on Speech Science and Technology, Adelaide, Australia. (Present paper as co-author.)

1997 9th International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa, University of Natal, Durban (Paper)

1997 The 16th International Conference of Linguists, Paris, France (Present paper as co-author)

1997 Second World Congress of African Linguistics, Leipzig, Germany. (Present paper)

1997 International Symposium of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation at Stellenbosch University (Paper)

1998 First International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Granada, Spain. (Paper)

1999 10th

International Biennial Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria (Invited keynote address)

1999 14th

International Congress of Phonetic Sciences, San Francisco, USA. (Paper).

2000 1st

International Linguistics Conference, University of Cape Town, Cape Town (Present a paper as well as a poster as co-author)

2000 2nd

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Athens, Greece. (Poster as co-author)

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2000 Interim International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA): Gaborone; Botswana. (co-author of paper by J Masalesa)

2000 6th

International Conference on Spoken Language Processing (ICSLP 2000), Beijing, China. (Poster as co-author)

2000 COCOSDA international workshop on language resources and technology evaluation: International and regional perspectives, Beijing, China. (Session chair and presentation of paper.)

2000 International Symposium on Cross linguistic studies of Tonal Phenomena, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Presentation of paper and panelist.)

2001 Workshop on Human Language Technology and Knowledge Management, 39th Annual

Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France. (Presentation).

2001 11th

International Biennial Conference of ALASA, University of Port Elizabeth (co-author of presentation by J Jones).

2001 Workshop on computational description of tone in African languages. University of Helsinki, Finland. (Presentation on invitation)

2001 International COCOSDA Workshop: Language Resources and Technology Evaluation, Aalborg, Denmark (Paper)

2001 Eurospeech 2001, Aalborg, Denmark. (Poster presentation and software demonstration). (Co-presenters: E Botha & P Louw)

2001 International Symposium: Text in context: African languages between orality and scripturality. Zurich, Switzerland. (October) (Co-author of presentation by S Bosch)

2002 International COCOSDA Workshop, Denver Colorado, USA (Author of presentation by EC Botha: HLT development in South Africa.)

2002 International Symposium on Cross linguistic studies of Tonal Phenomena (Phonetics of Tone), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (Presentation on invitation.)

2003 12th

International Biennial Conference of African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch (Presenter at workshop).

2003 6th

International TAMA Conference on Multilingual Knowledge and Technology Transfer, Pretoria (Paper).

2003 First International workshop of the International Committee for Written Language Resources (ICWLR): Paris, France. (Paper).

2003 International COCOSDA Workshop, Geneve, Switserland (Paper)

2003 International Colloquium on Multilingualism and Electronic Management, University of Free State, Bloemfontein. (Paper)

2003 Workshop on Partnership: SA – Dutch Language Union on the Development of Human Language Technology, Bloemfontein (Paper).

2004 International Workshop on ICT and Sustainable Development, Bangalore, India. Organised by Carnegie Mellon University with assistance of UNESCO and the World Bank. (Invited Chair of Workshop on ICT and Education.)

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2004 4th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC2004), Lisbon, Portugal (Paper)

2004 Joint COCOSDA / ICWLR workshop: Building the Language Resources and Evaluation Roadmap, Lisbon, Portugal (Paper)

2004 International Workshop on Language Resources, Pronunciation Variations and Lexicons for Automatic Speech Recognition, University of Gent, Gent, Belgium. (Two papers on invitation.)

2006 5th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, Workshop on Networking Resources for African Languages, Genoa, Italy (Paper)

2006 Joint COCOSDA / ICWLR workshop at 5th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation: Report on Networking Workshop for African languages, Genoa, Italy (Presentation)

2006 South African – French collaboration in ICT R&D Workshop, International workshop organised by Meraka Institute, Somerset West, South Africa. (Presentation on invitation.)

2007 14th

International Conference of the African Language Association of Southern Africa (ALASA), Nelson Mandela University, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (2 presentations)

2008 Multilingualism and Language Politics in Africa Workshop, Sponsored by DAAD. University of Leipzig, Germany. (February) (Invited paper)


International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Marrakech, Morocco. (May – June) (Paper).

2008 Human Language Technologies in Africa: Status and Prospects. Special conference of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, presented in Rabat Morroco at Ecole Nationale de l’Industrie Minérale: (May-June). (Invited keynote & paper).

2008 2nd

International Ganaa-Workshop, Oran, Algeria (October). (Paper).

2008 CENAREST / IRSH Seminar, Omar Bongo University, Libreville, Gabon. (Main presentation: Developing HLTs in Africa: A case for Gabon, with HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza). (November).

2008 NTU/NHN Workshop: HLT collaboration between South Africa and the Low Countries, Cape Town. (November). (Overview paper).

2009 FlaReNet, Launch Conference (EU FP7 project), Vienna, Austria. (February). (Invited paper).

2009 UNESCO Workshop on Cyber Networks for Language Learning, Beijing, China. (March). (Invited paper).

2009 6th

World Conference on African Languages (WOCAL2009). Cologne, Germany. (August). (Paper)

2009 International Symposium on Technical Translation and Terminology for Cross-cultural Dialogue. Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey. (November). (Invited keynote).


International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Valletta, Malta. (May). (Report).

2010 7th

International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. Valletta, Malta. (Co-presenter poster presentation).

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2010 SSW7: The 7th

ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, Kyoto, Japan (Co-author of presentation).

2011 METANET-Forum 2011, Budapest, Hungary (Invited speaker in international panel.)

8.3 Guest lectures / academic activities

1981 Department of English and Linguistics, University of Essen, Germany. (Lecture series on invitation of Prof W Enninger.)

1986 The Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America, City University of New York (CUNY), New York. (Lectures as part of a course on speech physiology. Invitation: Prof K Harris.)

1986 Departments of Afrikaans, African Languages, Linguistics, University of the Orange Free State, Bloemfontein. (Series of lectures on invitation of Profs H Lubbe and J Gildenhuys.)

1986 Departments of Afrikaans and Speech Science and Audiology, University of Pretoria, Pretoria. (Series of lectures on invitation of Prof V N Webb.)

1986 Department of African Languages, Academy, Windhoek, Namibia. (Series of lectures on invitation of Prof J Ohly.)

2000 Guest Lectures on invitation for Centenary celebrations of the Institut für Afrikanistik, University of Leipzig, Germany.

2002 Presentation on Human Language Technologies to the Board of PANSALB. Pretoria.

2002 Presentation on Human Language Technologies to Dutch/Flemish and French Government officials, Pretoria.

2002 Presentation on Human Language Technologies to Government IT Officials Council, (GITOC) Centurion

2002 Public guest lecture on invitation at the Omar Bongo University, Libreville, Gabon (Co-presenter, HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza).

2005 Presentation on Human Language Technologies to top management of the University of Education, Winneba, Ghana.

2006 Presentation in Termtrain Project of UNESCO, StanSA, Dept Arts & Culture, Terminology applications and Human Language Technologies in SADC countries, Pretoria.

2006 Presentation in Termtrain Project of UNESCO, StanSA, Dept Arts & Culture, Networking language resources in Africa – Future plans and proposals. Pretoria.

2008 Presentation at Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Studies (STIAS) for Japanese Academic delegation and representatives of the South African Heads of Universities, Japanese Technology and Speech Synthesis in African Tone Languages, Stellenbosch

2008 Presentation at the MERAKA Institute, CSIR, Pretoria, Linguistic Knowledge and Speech Technology Applications, Pretoria.

2010 Invited guest lecture at the 2nd

International AFLAT Workshop, Valletta, Malta, Do we need linguistic knowledge for speech technology applications in African languages?

9 LARGER RESEARCH PROJECTS

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9.1 Completed projects (16)

1983 Vowel quality, tone and consonantal influences in Sotho, Senior Research Project, HSRC.

1985 Tonal depression in Xhosa, Stellenbosch University, Research Grant.

1986 Automatic language recognition, (co-worker) Institute of Electronics, University of Stellenbosch. (Prof W Coetzer).

1986 Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing, as part of an HSRC investigation entitled LEXINET - Computer processing of language. (Project leader) This project was commissioned by the Scientific Advisory Council of SA.

1990 An Acoustic-perceptual analysis of phonetic elements in the sound system of Xhosa. Larger Research Project, HSRC.

1990 The phonetic component of an interactive communication system (MacBliss) in Afrikaans and Xhosa for paraplegics. (Co-worker on request of the department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Cape Town.)

1993 The development of a text-to-speech system for Xhosa. (Project leader, prototype completed. DATAFUSION Inc., Pretoria/Stellenbosch.)

1994 Experimental phonetic analyses of selected prosodic phenomena in Xhosa Larger Research Project, HSRC.

1995 An electropalatographic study of click articulations in Zulu and Xhosa. (Joint project with the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. Dr K Mickey.)

2003 Promoting the development of the national languages of South Africa through language and speech technology applications. (African Speech Technology) (Project Leader: Innovation Fund project of DACST see also http://www.ast.sun.ac.za )

2006 Automated Multilingual Telephone Access to Financial Services. Project leader. (Department of Science and Technology)

2007 Speech-to-speech translation (Armscor). (Joint project leader with Prof J du Preez)

2009 High level speech synthesis for Xhosa and Zulu (RSA – Japan Bilateral)

2006-9 Language Learning Technologies (Joint SU, UP & Meraka project)

2009 Machine assisted translation for specific purposes (Armscor) (Project leader)

2010 MELFA: Mobile E-Learning Solutions (Joint consortium project: Stellenbosch University, Copenhagen University plus three private companies.)

9.2 Current projects

2010-2012 Phonotactics of the official African languages of South Africa. (Co-researcher: Dr HS Ndinga-Koumba-Binza)

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10 TEACHING ACTIVITIES

10.1 Supervision: Completed MA Studies: (19)

1986 An acoustic-perceptual analysis of the vowels of Xhosa with specific reference to the phonological process of vowel raising. A Holtzhausen (cum laude) (Written in Afrikaans).

1988 Principles of second language acquisition and the teaching of Xhosa at primary school level. HN Basson (Writen in Afrikaans).

1988 Devocalization in Xhosa: An experimental phonetic analysis. HSP Brand (Written in Afrikaans).

1991 Phonetic and phonological aspects of statement and echo questions in Xhosa. SC Theron (Written in Afrikaans).

1994 Aspects of the phonological acquisition of clicks in Xhosa. PW Lewis

1994 The phonology and phonetics of Xhosa demonstratives: A non-linear approach. TM Maxela (cum laude).

1994 An Autosegmental analysis of Xhosa nouns. JN Mdekazi

1996 Phonetic and phonological aspects of vowel raising in Sesotho. KZ Selebeleng (cum laude).

1997 Homorganic nasal assimilation in Tsonga: A Feature Geometry approach. PH Nkuna

1998 Nasal assimilations in Xhosa: An experimental analysis. BN Ntlabezo

1999 The prosodics of Imperatives in Xhosa: Implications for the development of a text-to-speech system. PS Swart (cum laude).

2001 The presentation of phonetic and phonological information in Nguni dictionaries, F Shoba (cum laude).

2001 Palatalization in Northern Sotho: A non-linear approach. KP Kgasago

2001 Nasal strengthening in Northern Sotho. MC Maepa

2002 Palatalization and labialization in Tshivenda, DP Nemakhavhani

2002 Nasal strengthening in Tshivenda, N Radzhadzhi.

2003 Syllable structure processes in Northern Sotho, MW Madigoe

2003 MPhil (Lexicography) (Department of Afrikaans and Dutch) (1candidate as co-supervisor)

2010 Marisa Griesel. Syntactic reordering as pre-processing in the development of an English-Afrikaans statistical machine translation system. (NWU – co-supervisor)

2010 Cindy McKellar: Data-selektering vir statistiese Engels-Afrikaanse masjienvertaling. (NWU – co-supervisor)

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10.2 Supervision: Completed Doctoral Studies (DLitt): (4)

1998 Phonetic and phonological interference in Xhosa speech communication. PW Lewis

2000 Xhosa intonational structures: An acoustic-perceptual investigation. JJ Jones

2005 Aspects of Zulu phonology: A feature geometry approach. S Naidoo

2008 Phonetic and phonological aspects of the sound system of Civili: An experimental approach. HS Ndinga Koumba Binza

Current Masters Students: (1)

Tshikani Mabasa. Dialogue system development in Xitsonga. (Stellenbosch University)

10.3 Teaching of specialized courses/advising theses in other faculties:

• Post-graduate courses in phonetics for teachers of hearing impaired children, Department of Ortopedagogics, Stellenbosch University, 1986-1992.

• Courses on phonetics and acoustics of speech signal processing at masters' and doctoral level for the Department of Electric & Electronic Engineering, Stellenbosch University (1989).

• Advisor for MEng (Electronic Engineering) candidate JAN Louw: “A cascade pole-zero speech synthesizer”, 1996 (cum laude). (Study leader: Dr JA du Preez)

• Advisor for phonetic component of one MBChB final year project at the Faculty of Medicine (Department Ear, Nose and Throat), Stellenbosch University, 1990.

• Advisor for eight final year student research projects in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, Stellenbosch University, 1992, 1995, 1999, 2001 and one student from the Department of Logopedics, University of Cape Town, 1995.

• Annual series of lectures in the Department of Speech Pathology and Audiology, Faculty of Medicine, Stellenbosch University 1995-1999. (Module: Experimental techniques in speech research.)

• Undergraduate lecture series on Speech Technology applications, North-West University, Potchefstroom (2009, 2010, 2011)

10.4 External / internal examination

• External examiner/moderator (at various occasions) in phonetics/phonology at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at respectively, the University of South Africa (UNISA), Potchefstroom University/North-West, University of the Western Cape (UWC), Rhodes University, Grahamstown., University of Pretoria

• Internal examiner for PhD (Electronic Engineering) candidate GJ Prinsloo: Dynamic vocal tract features for the recognition of coarticulated vowels, Electronic Engineering: Speech recognition, Stellenbosch University, 1992.

• Internal examiner for PhD (Electronic Engineering) candidate T Waardenburg: The automatic recognition of stop consonants, Electronic Engineering: Speech recognition, Stellenbosch University, 1994.

• Internal examiner for PhD (Electronic Engineering) candidate H Boshoff: Acoustic discretization of vocalic speech signals, Electronic Engineering: Speech recognition, Stellenbosch University, 1996.

• Internal examiner for PhD (Computer Science) candidate PZ Theron Automatic Acquisition of Two-Level Morphological Rules, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Stellenbosch University, 1999.

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• External examiner for MEng candidate F de Wet: Isolated word speech recognition in Xhosa, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pretoria, 1996.

• External examiner for the degree MSc (Speech Pathology), Medical School, University of Cape Town. 1999.

• Internal examiner for PhD Candidate, Ms AS Berg, Computational syntactic analysis of Setswana, North-West University.

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