Sibeko Johannes - Hub Coordinator
Email: johanness@mandela.ac.za | @Sibeko_JN
Academic Profile: https://applang.mandela.ac.za/Staff/Johannes-Sibeko
Academic background and areas of specialisation
Johannes holds a doctorate in Languages and Literatures from North-West University. His thesis was an interdisciplinary project that drew from Linguistics, Digital Humanities, Corpus Linguistics, and Computational Linguistics methods to develop readability measures for Sesotho. He also possesses a Master of Arts in Applied Language Studies, an Honours Bachelor of Arts in Language Practice, as well as a Bachelor of Arts in Language Practice with Sesotho. Additionally, he obtained a Postgraduate Certificate in Education from the University of South Africa, specialising in teaching home and first additional language subjects in the senior and FET band.
Primary research interests and areas of expertise within digital humanities
Corpus linguistics, Text readability, Linguistic complexity, Basic Language Resource Kits, Sesotho.
Basic Language Resource Kits (BLaRKs) Projects
Special achievements
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Winner of the Faculty of Humanities Emerging Researcher of the year in 2023.
Membership of professional associations
Engagement
Johannes was the main organiser of the DHASA 2023 biennial conference. He was also chair of the LOC for the organising team for the Hundzula workshop for 2024.