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News Author: Wiida Fourie-Basson Published: 28/04/2021 ​From Khoekhoegowab to Igbo and Sepedi – these are only three of the low-resource languages in Africa that a group of over 400 volunteers from more than 20 African countries are targeting to address the lack of diversity in the field of natural language processing. Natural language processing (NLP) is a branch of artificial intelligence that helps computers understand, interpret and manipulate human language. But while Africa has more than 2000 living languages, most of these have very little data, making it difficult to develop speec...

Kyle Verreynne should be playing all formats, says Vernon Philander Zaahier Adams © Provided by Independent Online (IOL) CAPE TOWN - Former Proteas all-rounder Vernon Philander has joined the masses in calling for Kyle Verreynne to picked across "all formats" for the national team. Verreynne, 23, has been the centre of a social media storm after being left out of the Proteas T20I team for the recent series against Pakistan. The Proteas lost the series 3-1. Mark Boucher's team were admittedly without five regulars that are on duty at the Indian Premier League. Furthermore, ca...

Mark Boucher questions Heinrich Klaasen's captaincy and explains Kyle Verreynne's absence Stuart Hess © Provided by Independent Online (IOL) JOHANNESBURG – Heinrich Klaasen’s captaincy was put firmly under the spotlight, following South Africa’s defeat in the third T20 International against Pakistan, with Proteas head coach, Mark Boucher questioning fielding positions and the use – and nonuse – of certain bowlers. “When we’ve been put under immense pressure we have not responded in the way that we know our players can,” Boucher said ahead of the fourth T20 In...

Marshalled by their silky, irrepressible, and majestic batting bulwark and captain Babar Azam, South Africa in the third T20 at SuperSport Park in Centurion. By reeling in South Africa’s 203/5 by posting 205/1, Pakistan pulled off their highest successful T20 chase with the comfort of 12 balls to spare and took an unassailable 2-1 lead in the four-game series. It was an epic batting turkey shoot where South Africa dished up a buffet of boundary balls that Azam (122 off 59) and his opening partner Mohammad Rizwan (73* off 47) gladly feasted on.   It was messy stuff on a shirtfront of a Su...

The Proteas returned to winning ways as they cruised to victory against Pakistan in the second T20 international at the Wanderers Stadium.