Research Projects
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Van Huyssteen 2025e
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2025eVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2025. “Impolite Afrikaans morphological constructions.” 5th International Afrikaans Grammar Workshop, University of Michigan [online], 05–06 September.
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Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2023
Read more: Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2023Eiselen, Roald, and Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2023. A comparison of statistical tests for Likert-type data: The case of swearwords. Journal of Open Humanties Data 9:1–13. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.132.
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Van Huyssteen et al 2023b
Read more: Van Huyssteen et al 2023bVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Rabé, Monique, and Puttkammer, Martin J. 2023. Ouderdoms- en inhoudsadvies vir Afrikaanse boeke vir kinders: resultate van ’n eerste kwalitatiewe en kwantitatiewe ondersoek [Age and content advisories for Afrikaans children’s books: Results of a first qualitative and quantitative investigation]. LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe) 20:185–212. https://doi.org/10.56273/1995-5928/2023/j20n1b7. Dataset Dataset: Age and content advisories for Afrikaans…
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Van Huyssteen et al 2023c
Read more: Van Huyssteen et al 2023cVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Eiselen, Roald, and Du Toit, Jaco. 2023. A dataset of self-reported attitudes to Afrikaans swearwords. Journal of Open Humanties Data 9:1–8. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.127. Dataset Afrikaans swearword scores [zip]
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Van Huyssteen & Tiberius 2023
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Tiberius 2023Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Tiberius, Carole. 2023. Towards a lexical database of Dutch taboo language. Paper presented at eLex 2023, Brno, Czech Republic. https://elex.link/elex2023/ Design document: Version 2.0.0 available for commenting Download XLSX
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Van Huyssteen et al 2023a
Read more: Van Huyssteen et al 2023aVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Breed, Adri, Butler, Anneke, Botha, Lande, Partridge, Maristi, and Pilon, Suléne. 2023. ʼn Metodologie vir die beskrywing van konstruksionaliseringsnetwerke: Konstruksies met [in] as gevallestudie [A methodology for the description of constructionalisation networks: Constructions with [in] as a case study]. Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics.
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Van Huyssteen, Puttkammer & Rabé 2022
Read more: Van Huyssteen, Puttkammer & Rabé 2022Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Puttkammer, Martin J., and Rabé, Monique. 2022. Do Afrikaans digital parents want content and age advisories for books? In Digital Humanities in precarious times. Vanderbijlpark, South Africa: North-West University.
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Van Huyssteen 2022d
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2022dVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Drie duisend f-bomme en granate: Temas in vergelykende vloekkunde [Three thousand f-bombs and grenades: Themes in comparative maledictology]. In Keynote speaker: Conference of the Suid-Afrikaanse Vereniging vir Neerlandistiek [South African Society for Dutch Studies]. Nijmegen: Radboud University.
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Van Huyssteen 2022c
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2022cVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Suid-Afrikaanse Taalkunde: Vloek in Afrikaans [South African Linguistics: Swearing in Afrikaans]. In Guest lectureship. Leiden: Leiden University.
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Van Huyssteen 2022b
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2022bVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Kan godslastering ooit humoristies wees? [Can blasphemy ever be humourous?]. In Vloekcoza research blog. https://vloek.co.za/blogs/navorsing/kan-godslastering-humoristies-wees.
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Van Huyssteen 2022a
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2022aVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2022. Wat ons van ‘fok’ weet (en nie weet nie) [What we (don’t) know about fok]. LitNet Akademies (Geesteswetenskappe) 19:428-452.
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Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021a
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021aVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B, and Roald Eiselen. 2021. “Oor feekse en helleveë [On shrews and harridans].” Tydskrif vir Geesteswetenskappe 61 (4-1):1129-1155. doi: doi.10.17159/2224-7912/2021/v61n4-1a9.
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Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2021
Read more: Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2021Eiselen, Roald, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2021. “Using ordinal logistic regression to analyse self-reported usage of, and attitudes towards swearwords.” International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa 2021, Virtual, 29 November to 3 December.
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Van Huyssteen 2021a
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2021aVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2021. “Swearing in South Africa: Multidisciplinary research on language taboos.” International Conference of the Digital Humanities Association of Southern Africa 2021, South Africa, 29 November to 3 December.
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Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021b
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Eiselen 2021bVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. & Eiselen, Roald. 2021. How Afrikaans women became fierce-tempered. Zürich Workshop on Afrikaans Linguistics. Zürich, Switzerland. 4-5 October.
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Van Huyssteen 2021b
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2021bVan Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2021b. When as word is befok. Afrikaans Grammar Workshop III. Amsterdam, The Netherlands. 29 September – 1 October.
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Van Huyssteen 2019
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2019Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B. 2019. “Vloek Afrikaanssprekendes regtig? Betroubaarheid van ’n eerste grootskaalse meningspeiling se resultate.” Vloek.co.za.
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What the swearword?!
Read more: What the swearword?!This multidisciplinary research project investigates swearing from the digital humanities, and with inputs from and implications to various cognitive neurosciences.
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Van Huyssteen 2019
Read more: Van Huyssteen 2019Van Huyssteen, Gerhardus B. 2019. Website: vloek.co.za. Available: https://vloek.co.za. Pretoria: Viridevert NPC.
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Genre Classification
Read more: Genre ClassificationWe investigated appropriate ontologies and optimal supervised and unsupervised machine learning methods for the development of genre classifiers, specifically for resource-scarce languages.
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Automatic Compound Processing (AuCoPro)
Read more: Automatic Compound Processing (AuCoPro)Project: Automatic Compound Processing Abbreviation AuCoPro DURATION 2012-2014 FUNDED BY: Dutch Language Union (Belgium, The Netherlands) Department of Arts and Culture (South Africa) National Research Foundation (South Africa) (Grant number: 81794) European Network on Word Structure (NetWordS) (European Science Foundation) (Grant number: 5570) PROJECT URLS http://sourceforge.net/projects/aucopro/ https://gerhard.pro/aucopro PROJECT LEADERS GERHARD B VAN HUYSSTEEN – PROJECT COORDINATOR…
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Heeringa, De Wet & Van Huyssteen 2015
Read more: Heeringa, De Wet & Van Huyssteen 2015Heeringa, Wilbert, Febe De Wet, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2015. “Afrikaans and Dutch as closely-related languages: A comparison to West Germanic languages and Dutch dialects.” Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus 47:1-18. doi: 10.5842/47-0-649.
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Van Niekerk, Van Huyssteen & Puttkammer 2015
Read more: Van Niekerk, Van Huyssteen & Puttkammer 2015Van Niekerk, Daniel, Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Martin J. Puttkammer. 2015. Closely related languages convertor v2.0.0. Potchefstroom: Centre for Text Technology (CTexT), North-West University.
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Snyman, Van Huyssteen & Daelemans 2014
Read more: Snyman, Van Huyssteen & Daelemans 2014Snyman, Dirk P., Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Walter Daelemans. 2014. “Outomatiese genreklassifikasie vir Afrikaans [Automatic genre classification for Afrikaans].”
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Van Huyssteen & Verhoeven 2014
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Verhoeven 2014Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Ben. Verhoeven. 2014. “A taxonomy for Afrikaans and Dutch compounds.” Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014): The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA), Dublin, Ireland.
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Van Huyssteen et al 2014
Read more: Van Huyssteen et al 2014Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., Walter Daelemans, Menno M. Van Zaanen, and Ben. Verhoeven. 2014. Resources for compound processing. North-West University: Potchefstroom, South Africa; University of Antwerp: Antwerp, Belgium; University of Tilburg: Tilburg, The Netherlands.
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Van Zaanen et al 2014
Read more: Van Zaanen et al 2014van Zaanen, Menno M., Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, Suzanna Aussems, Chris Emmery, and Roald Eiselen. 2014. “The development of Dutch and Afrikaans language resources for compound boundary analysis.” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2014), Reykjavik, Iceland.
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Verhoeven et al 2014a
Read more: Verhoeven et al 2014aVerhoeven, Ben, Menno M Van Zaanen, Walter Daelemans, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2014. “Automatic compound processing: compound splitting and semantic analysis for Afrikaans and Dutch.” Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2014): The First Workshop on Computational Approaches to Compound Analysis (ComAComA), Dublin, Ireland.
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Verhoeven et al 2014b
Read more: Verhoeven et al 2014bVerhoeven, Ben, Gerhard B Van Huyssteen, Menno M. Van Zaanen, and Walter Daelemans. 2014. Annotation guidelines for compound analysis. In CLiPS Technical Report Series (CTRS). Number 5. Antwerp: University of Antwerp.
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Botha, Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2013
Read more: Botha, Eiselen & Van Huyssteen 2013Botha, Zandré, E. Roald Eiselen, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2013. “Improving automatic compound semantic analysis using Wordnets.” PRASA 2013.
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Verhoeven & Van Huyssteen 2013
Read more: Verhoeven & Van Huyssteen 2013Verhoeven, Ben, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2013. “More than only noun-noun compounds: towards an annotation acheme for the semantic modelling of other noun compound types.” Proceedings of Ninth Joint ACL – ISO Workshop on Interoperable Semantic Annotation.
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Davel & Van Huyssteen 2012
Read more: Davel & Van Huyssteen 2012Davel, Marlie, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2012. Construction morphology toolkit (cx-morph-toolkit) 0.1. Potchefstroom: North-West University.
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Verhoeven, Daelemans & Van Huyssteen 2012
Read more: Verhoeven, Daelemans & Van Huyssteen 2012Verhoeven, Ben, Walter Daelemans, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2012. “Classification of noun-noun compound semantics in Dutch and Afrikaans.” Pretoria, South Africa, 2012.
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De Wet, De Waal & Van Huyssteen 2011
Read more: De Wet, De Waal & Van Huyssteen 2011De Wet, F, A De Waal, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2011. “Developing a broadband automatic speech recognition system for Afrikaans.” Proceedings of the 12th Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (Interspeech 2011):3185-3188.
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Snyman, Van Huyssteen & Daelemans 2011
Read more: Snyman, Van Huyssteen & Daelemans 2011Snyman, Dirk P., Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Walter Daelemans. 2011. “Automatic genre classification for resource scarce languages.” Proceedings of the 2011 Conference of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Vanderbijlpark, South Africa.
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Schlünz, Barnard & Van Huyssteen 2010
Read more: Schlünz, Barnard & Van Huyssteen 2010Schlünz, Georg I., Etienne Barnard, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2010. “Part-of-speech effects on text-to-speech synthesis.” Proceedings of the 2010 Conference of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa:257-262.
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Van Huyssteen & Davel 2010
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Davel 2010Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and M. Davel. 2010. “Learning rules and categorization networks for language standardization.” Proceedings of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL) Workshop on Extracting and Using Constructions in Computational Linguistics:39-46.
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Daelemans, Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2009
Read more: Daelemans, Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2009Daelemans, Walter, Hendrik J. Groenewald, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2009. “Prototype-based active learning for lemmatization.” Proceedings of Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing 2009.
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Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2008
Read more: Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2008Groenewald, Hendrik J, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2008. “Outomatiese lemma-identifisering vir Afrikaans [Automatic lemmatisation for Afrikaans].” Literator 29 (1):65-91.
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Pilon, Puttkammer & Van Huyssteen 2008
Read more: Pilon, Puttkammer & Van Huyssteen 2008Pilon, Suléne, Martin J. Puttkammer, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2008. “Die ontwikkeling van ‘n woordafbreker en kompositumanaliseerder vir Afrikaans [The development of a hyphenator and compound analyser for Afrikaans].” Literator 29 (1):21-41.
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Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2007
Read more: Groenewald & Van Huyssteen 2007Groenewald, Hendrik J., and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2007. “Work-in-progress: end-user requirements for machine-aided translation tools.” LSSA Conference, North-West University, POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa.
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Groenewald, Van Huyssteen & Puttkammer 2007
Read more: Groenewald, Van Huyssteen & Puttkammer 2007Groenewald, Hendrik J., Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen, and Martin J. Puttkammer. 2007. “Evaluating wrapped progressive sampling for automatic algorithmic parameter optimisation.” International Conference Recent Advances in Natural Language Processing, RANLP:251-255.
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Groenewald, Van Huyssteen & Van Den Bosch 2007
Read more: Groenewald, Van Huyssteen & Van Den Bosch 2007Groenewald, Hendrik J., Antal Van den Bosch, and Gerhard B. Van Huyssteen. 2007. “Feature selection and parameter optimisation for effective Afrikaans lemmatisation.” Computational Linguistics in the Netherlands, University of Leuven, LEUVEN, Belgium.
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Van Huyssteen & Groenewald 2007
Read more: Van Huyssteen & Groenewald 2007Van Huyssteen, Gerhard B., and Hendrik J. Groenewald. 2007. “‘n Heroorweging van fleksie in Afrikaans: klasse vir outomatiese Afrikaanse lemma-identifisering [Afrikaans inflection revisited: classes for automatic Afrikaans lemmatisation].” LSSA Conference, North-West University, POTCHEFSTROOM, South Africa.