Improving the computational morphological analysis of a Swahili corpus for lexicographic purposes

Lexikos

Volumn 18, Issue , 2008, Pages 303-318

  De Pauw, Guy ^a,b,c   De Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^c,d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^d GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^e TshwaneDJe HLT   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Corpus annotation; Lemmatization; Lexicography; Machine learning; Morphology; Swahili (Kiswahili)

Indexed keywords

EID: 61249415946     PISSN: 16844904     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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