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                              FAIR2019:

     South African Forum for Artificial
           Intelligence Research

                          4-6 December 2019
                     Cape Town, South Africa



                      Conference Proceedings
                   Marelie Davel and Etienne Barnard (Eds.)




© 2019 for the individual papers by the papers’ authors. Use permitted under Creative
Commons License Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
Preface
The South African Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research (CAIR) is a grouping of
researchers from several disciplines and universities with a broad range of interests in
AI. For the past five years, one of the collaborative activities of CAIR has been the
annual Forum for AI Research, where matters of common interest are discussed by
CAIR members. Since CAIR represents a range of disciplines (computer science,
engineering, philosophy, information science, statistics and others) it has been a par-
ticularly fruitful forum for sharing ideas. Discussions have taken various formats, and
in November 2018 it was decided that a more formal conference would be appropriate
for the growing body of research output being produced by the South African AI
community.
   An open call for proposals was therefore circulated, and a Programme Committee
constituted from senior CAIR members and other researchers with relevant interests.
Contributions were solicited in five tracks (Applications of AI, Ethics and AI,
Knowledge representation, Machine learning, Other topics in AI), and authors were
given the opportunity to submit full papers, extended abstracts, or summaries of work
in progress.
   A total of 72 submissions were received, and full-paper submissions were blind re-
viewed by at least two independent reviewers from the relevant discipline. From these
submissions, 20 papers were accepted as full papers. In addition, 34 submissions were
accepted as work in progress, and 10 as extended abstracts (of work under review or
published elsewhere).
   It is a pleasure to thank the organisers for arranging this conference, programme
committee members for ensuring that an appropriate level of rigour is maintained
(while also encouraging emerging research), and especially the authors for providing
the wide range of ideas that will be the core of this inaugural conference. We trust that
some of the ideas herein will be of interest to each reader of these proceedings.

Marelie Davel & Etienne Barnard, Editors



Senior programme committee
Chair: Etienne Barnard          North-West University
Alta de Waal                    University of Pretoria
Anban Pillay                    University of KwaZulu-Natal
Arina Britz                     Stellenbosch University
Aurona Gerber                   University of Pretoria
Deshen Moodley                  University of Cape Town
Emma Ruttkamp-Bloem             University of Pretoria
Louise Leenen                   University of the Western Cape
Marelie Davel                   North-West University
Tommie Meyer                    University of Cape Town
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Programme committee
Andries Engelbrecht         Stellenbosch University
Anne Gerdes                 University of Southern Denmark
Ben Herbst                  Praelexis
Benjamin Rosman             CSIR
Bertram Haskins             Nelson Mandela University
Bigomokero Antoine Bagula   University of the Western Cape
Bruce Watson                Stellenbosch University
Charl van Heerden           Saigen
Clement Nyirenda            University of the Western Cape
Daniel van Niekerk          superQuery
Edgar Jembere               University of KwaZulu-Natal
Eduardo Fermé               University of Madeira
Febe de Wet                 CSIR
Gavin Rens                  University of Cape Town
Giovanni Casini             University of Luxembourg
Henriette Harmse            EMBL-EBI
Herman Kamper               Stellenbosch University
Inger Fabris-Rotelli        University of Pretoria
Ivan Varzinczak             Artois University, French National Center for Scien-
                            tific Research
Jaco Kruger                 St Augustine College of South Africa
Jan Buys                    University of Cape Town
JP van Deventer             University of Pretoria
Ken Halland                 University of South Africa
Kody Moodley                Maastricht University
Lisa Kirkland               University of Pretoria
Mandlenkosi Gwetu           University of Kwazulu-Natal
Mehrdad Ghaziasgar          University of the Western Cape
Olasupo Ajayi               University of Lagos
Omowunmi Isafiade           University of the Western Cape
Patrick Marais              University of Cape Town
Rennie Naidoo               University of Pretoria
Serestina Viriri            University of KwaZulu-Natal
Sihem Belabbes              Artois University
Thipe Modipa                University of Limpopo
Tian Theunissen             North-West University
Vincent C Müller            Technical University of Eindhoven, University of
                            Leeds

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