Author: Gilles-Maurice de Schryver

In a recent series of articles Gilles-Maurice de Schryver focuses on three chatbots in the field of lexicography, and this for three languages from three markedly different language families:

• GPT-4o for Lusoga (Bantu, JE16)
• Gemini-2.5 for Portuguese (with a focus on the Brazilian variety)
• DeepSeek-R1 for Chinese (with the help of native speaker Wanjing Han)

Available from UGent Biblio as:

• Out-of-the-box GPTs for lexicography (for English, Portuguese, Swahili, Xhosa, Lusoga)
• Customised GPTs for lexicography (for Portuguese, Lusoga)
• DeepSeek as the ultimate translator and lexicographer (for Chinese)

The talk ‘Broken in Uganda’, which Gilles-Maurice de Schryver presented on August 15, 2023, at the ‘Third Biannual Conference of the Language Association of Eastern Africa’ in Kampala, is now available on YouTube. In this talk focusing on the Ugandan language Lusoga, he criticizes Uganda’s National Curriculum Development Centre (NCDC), an institution under the Ministry of Education and Sports (MoE&S) responsible for the development of educational curricula for Pre-primary, Primary, Secondary and Tertiary institutions in Uganda, for not taking indigenous Bantu languages seriously enough.