Project: SADiLaR IV (Extension): Update and extension of linguistic resources and core technologies for South African languages

Type: 67,875 tokens in isiZulu (zu_ZA) annotated for part-of-speech for five different text types  (Final version).
Languages: 	isiZulu (zu_ZA)
Date: 2026-03-31
Version: 1.0 (Final)

Description:
This deliverable contains part-of-speech tagged data from five different text types for isiZulu.

The text types included are:

- CAPS gr12 (Academic)
- MA/PhD Theses (Academic)
- Magazines (Non-Academic)
- News (Non-Academic)
- Novels (Fiction)

The data is given as txt files where each line contains a token and the corresponding POS tag, tab separated.

Each text type data file contains 11,000+ tokens, amounting to a total of 67,875 tokens for the language. Please see the included protocol for more details on the POS tags used.

This data is a combination of new data with the previously published smaller data set "POS annotated corpus with 5 different text types for isiZulu" https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12185/671.

Please see Tanja Gaustad, Roald Eiselen, Cindy McKellar (2026). Extension of Linguistic Resources for South African Languages: Part-of-Speech Annotated Domain-Specific Data. Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL) (collocated with LREC 2026) for more detailed information.


Contents

Language and text type						| Tokens |
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isiZulu CAPS gr12 (POS annotated)			| 11,895 |
isiZulu MA/PhD Theses (POS annotated)		| 14,492 |
isiZulu Magazines (POS annotated)			| 11,587 |
isiZulu News (POS annotated)				| 14,244 |
isiZulu Novels (POS annotated)				| 15,657 |		Total isiZulu: 67,875
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Licence for final (v1.0) distribution: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International
 
URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
 
Attribute work to: 
	CTexT® (Centre for Text Technology, North-West University), South Africa; 
	SADiLaR (South African Centre for Digital Language Resources), South Africa.
Attribute work to URL:	
	http://humanities.nwu.ac.za/ctext
    https://sadilar.org