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Maria Keet

I am an Associate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Cape Town, who volunteered for Wikimedia for Abstract Wikipedia from 1 July '22 - 31 December '22 a substantial amount of time and from 1 January 2023 is still volunteering but fewer hours per week than before.

Contributions

Template language for Abstract Wikipedia
- including the appendix on Transformations of the template syntax to other formalisms such as the ToCT model
Documentation on adding lexicographic information of isiZulu to Wikidata
Involvement in a draft discussion document about the Abstract Representation for constructors and I gave a presentation on language design on 21 Feb '23 in the public meeting of the NLG stream to facilitate language feature exploration and discussion.
A collection of sample sentences to test the NLG systems for Abstract Wikipedia
Elsewhere in the WMF system: mainly adding data on Wikidata
Knowledge-to-text Natural Language Generation for Agglutinating African Languages. TechTalk at the Wikimedia Foundation google.org fellows offsite workshop, Google Zurich, Switzerland, 23-26 August 2022. video and slides
Exploring graphical interfaces for designing templates with TEDi
Mentions in updates (newsletters and related communication):
- Newsletter of 2 March on the presentation on the abstract representation language for the constructors
- Newsletter of 9 Dec in the thank you to the volunteers
- Newsletter of 27 Oct in relation to collaboration with Google.org Fellows
- Newsletter of 5 Oct on the off-site in Zurich
- Newsletter of 23 Sept announcing the diff article
- diff article on the NLG workstream
- Newsletter of 19 Aug announcing the template language

More information

You can access a selection of my writings (scientific publications etc) at these sites:

Homepage
My Google Scholar page
DBLP entry
My blog with three posts (in the July-Dec'22 timeframe) on, or relevant to, Abstract Wikipedia and its NLG stream specifically:
- on introducing the template language
- a summary of an article with a review of NLG realisers and a new one for NCB languages
- on ways of connecting templates to computational grammars
Also, I was added to Wikidata by a bot as an item some time ago here.

Contact details

Feel free to send me an email or leave a message on my talk page.