Research Topics
LLMs for low-resource languages
- Modelling, translation, and generation where data is scarce
Knowledge and linguistic structure in text
- Knowledge enhancement, segmentation, and meaning representation
South African language data
- Building NLP datasets and models for multiple languages
Text generation
- Faithful, controllable generation and evaluation
People
Principal Investigator
Co-Investigator
Current postgraduate students
- Nomonde Khalo (PhD, supervisor Jan Buys)
- Claytone Sikasote (PhD, supervisor Jan Buys and Hussein Suleman)
- Natalie Alexander (PhD, supervisor Jan Buys)
- Anri Lombard (MSc, supervisor Jan Buys, Francois Meyer)
- Simbarashe Mawere (MSc, supervisor Jan Buys, Francois Meyer)
- Laura Haworth (MSc, supervisor Jan Buys, Jason Hlozek)
- Cael Marquard (MSc, supervisor Francois Meyer)
- Ruba Osman (MSc, supervisor Jan Buys)
- Razeen Parker (MSc, supervisor Francois Meyer)
- Sihle Mtwa (PhD, supervisor Salah Kabanda)
- Prosper Arineitwe Asiimwe (MSc, supervisor Jan Buys, Francois Meyer)
Graduated students
- Francois Meyer (PhD)
- Sello Ralethe (PhD)
- Khalid N. Elmadani (MSc)
- Natalie Alexander (MSc)
- Neil Sinclair (MSc)
- Shane Acton (MSc)
- Victoria Pedlar (MSc)
- Yassin Nurmahomed (MSc)
- Maxwell Mojapelo (MPhil)
Selected Group Publications
Sello Ralethe and Jan Buys
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
Francois Meyer, Haiyue Song, Abhisek Chakrabarty, Jan Buys, Raj Dabre and Hideki Tanaka
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys
Francois Meyer and Jan Buys