UCT NLP

University of Cape Town Natural Language Processing Group

We perform research in natural language processing and machine learning. Research topics include: methods for automatic text generation, language modelling and machine translation; supervised and unsupervised models for discovering linguistic structure in text; and developing datasets and NLP models for low-resource languages, with a particular focus on African and South African languages.

Principle Investigator

Dr. Jan Buys

Current postgraduate students

• Francois Meyer (PhD)
• Sello Ralethe (PhD)
• Khalid N. Elmadani Ahmed (MSc)
• Shane Acton (MSc)
• Maxwell Mojapelo (MPhil)
• Yassin Nurmahomed (MSc)

Past students

• Neil Sinclair (MSc)

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