LauretteĀ Marais
Senior Researcher at Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)
Gauteng, South Africa
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Top SchoolLaurette Marais is a Senior Researcher with over a decade of experience developing computational language resources for under-resourced South African languages, combining deep learning with computational grammar engineering. Based at CSIR in Gauteng, she focuses on mother-tongue literacy, language learning, and language development for school learners, prioritizing practical, urgent applications across the continent. Her work emphasizes white-box technologies to deliver reliable, verifiable AI in an era dominated by black-box models. Laurette holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stellenbosch and progressed from post-graduate research at Meraka to a senior role at CSIR, bringing both academic rigor and operational delivery. She champions open, freely available linguistic resources and bridges resource-scarce contexts with robust, accuracy-driven solutions. Less obvious: she repeatedly targets classroom impact, not just publications, ensuring tools reach learners and educators on the ground.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Stellenbosch UniversityUniversity of South AfricaUniversity of Pretoria
Github Skills (10)
rgl10
grammar9
azerothcore5
trinitycore5
grammars4
agda3
nlp3
glossary3
dsl3
java3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
LauretteM/GF
May 2015 - Jan 2016
Contributions:45 pushes in 7 months
darcsgrammaticalgrammarparserprogramming-language
LauretteM/gf-rgl-zul
Aug 2020 - Mar 2022
Contributions:20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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