Ornella Wandji


2021

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Construire des ressources collaboratives pour les langues peu dotées: une modélisation orientée communauté (Building collaborative resources for poorly endowed languages : community-oriented modeling )
Elvis Mboning | Ornella Wandji
Actes de la 28e Conférence sur le Traitement Automatique des Langues Naturelles. Volume 1 : conférence principale

Les applications du traitement automatique des langues (TAL) nourrissent aujourd’hui une bonne partie des langues indo-européennes en raison des corpus linguistiques de qualité disponibles en grande quantité et variété. Les corpus de données open sources en langues africaines étant quasi inexistants, comment arrimer les avancées du TAL à ces langues peu dotées ? Dans cet article, nous examinons le problème de construction des ressources lexicographiques pour les langues peu dotées. Nous souhaitons introduire un modèle de construction des ressources lexicographiques en exploitant les compétences socio-linguistiques des communautés linguistiques locales. Au fil des sections, nous présenterons le nouveau modèle de codification des dictionnaires issue de cette modélisation orientée communauté.

2020

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Building Collaboration-based Resources in Endowed African Languages: Case of NTeALan Dictionaries Platform
Elvis Mboning Tchiaze | Jean Marc Bassahak | Daniel Baleba | Ornella Wandji | Jules Assoumou
Proceedings of the first workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages

In a context where open-source NLP resources and tools in African languages are scarce and dispersed, it is difficult for researchers to truly fit African languages into current algorithms of artificial intelligence. Created in 2017, with the aim of building communities of voluntary contributors around African native and/or national languages, cultures, NLP technologies and artificial intelligence, the NTeALan association has set up a series of web collaborative platforms intended to allow the aforementioned communities to create and administer their own lexicographic resources. In this article, we present on the one hand the first versions of the three platforms: the REST API for saving lexicographical resources, the dictionary management platform and the collaborative dictionary platform; on the other hand, we describe the data format chosen and used to encapsulate our resources. After experimenting with a few dictionaries and some users feedback, we are convinced that only collaboration-based approach and platforms can effectively respond to the production of good resources in African native and/or national languages.

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NTeALan Dictionaries Platforms: An Example Of Collaboration-Based Model
Elvis Mboning | Daniel Baleba | Jean Marc Bassahak | Ornella Wandji | Jules Assoumou
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Language Technology Platforms

Nowadays the scarcity and dispersion of open-source NLP resources and tools in and for African languages make it difficult for researchers to truly fit these languages into current algorithms of artificial intelligence, resulting in the stagnation of these numerous languages, as far as technological progress is concerned. Created in 2017, with the aim of building communities of voluntary contributors around African native and/or national languages, cultures, NLP technologies and artificial intelligence, the NTeALan association has set up a series of web collaborative platforms intended to allow the aforementioned communities to create and manage their own lexicographic and linguistic resources. This paper aims at presenting the first versions of three lexicographic platforms that we developed in and for African languages: the REST/GraphQL API for saving lexicographic resources, the dictionary management platform and the collaborative dictionary platform. We also describe the data representation format used for these resources. After experimenting with a few dictionaries and looking at users feedback, we are convinced that only collaboration-based approaches and platforms can effectively respond to challenges of producing quality resources in and for African native and/or national languages.