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Thapelo J. Otlogetswe is Senior Lecturer of English Linguistics and Lexicography in the Department of English at the University of Botswana, where he obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a Post Graduate Diploma in Education. He studied for an MPhil in Comparative Linguistics and Philology at the University of Oxford. His doctoral studies in Corpus Linguistics were done at the University of Brighton and the University of Pretoria. His research focuses on lexical computing and corpus lexicography, particularly that of the Setswana language, which he is passionate about. His research also includes computational and statistical genre and text type analysis, Setswana names, and Setswana rhyming patterns. He has been involved in the development of a Setswana spellchecker (for OpenOffice) and the compilation of a multi-million token Setswana corpus. Dr Otlogetswe has published a number of books, amongst these: English-Setswana Dictionary and Poeletso-medumo ya Setswana: A Setswana Rhyming Dictionary and M. L. A. Kgasa: A Pioneer Setswana Lexicographer. He has also co-authored a Setswana orthography book: Mokwalo o o lolameng wa Setswana. Dr Otlogetswe led the groundbreaking translation work on the Setswana Google Search which has made it possible for people to access the Google search interface in the Setswana language. He is a member of the African Association for Lexicography (Afrilex) as well as a commissioner of the Setswana Commission established by the Academy of African Languages (ACALAN), a language arm of the African Union.

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