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- Title
Evaluating the Availability of Resources, Research Hubs, and Financial Supports for Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research.
- Authors
Asubiaro, Toluwase
- Abstract
Despite the unavailability of national government support and perpetual scarcity of resources, there are indications that the number of natural language processing (NLP) studies on Nigerian languages is growing. This study collates information about the resources, institutional structures, and financial sources that support the research of Nigerian languages from published scientific articles. Relevant publications were systematically retrieved from Google, Web of Science, and Scopus. Information on research data availability, authors' institutional affiliation, and funding acknowledgement was collected from the full texts of the NLP publications for analysis. Results reveal that only 14.28% of the published papers shared 18 different resources (speech and textual corpora, electronic dictionary, and source codes) online, and 27.95% of the articles were funded. Support for the NLP of Nigerian languages was significantly higher from outside Nigeria—for instance, most of the funding sources were from the United States, France, and the United Kingdom. Secondly, more papers were written by authors that were affiliated with institutions outside Nigeria than authors from within Nigeria. Thirdly, most of the available resources on online repositories were shared by authors that were affiliated with institutions outside Nigeria. The top five research hubs on the NLP of Nigerian languages are Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria; the University of Sheffield, United Kingdom; the University of Uyo, Nigeria; African Languages Technology Initiative, Nigeria; and the University of Ibadan, Nigeria. Instances of research collaboration between Nigerian and foreign universities for NLP capacity building were identified. This study provides an insight into the existing structure and resources for the NLP of Nigerian languages, which could be harnessed by stakeholders for the development of Nigerian languages.
- Subjects
NIGERIA; NATURAL language processing; LANGUAGE research; ELECTRONIC dictionaries; AFRICAN languages; CAPACITY building
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Information & Library Sciences, 2021, Vol 43, Issue 3, p269
- ISSN
1195-096X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3138/cjils.e10210