Learning the morphology of zulu with different degrees of supervision

2008 IEEE Workshop on Spoken Language Technology, SLT 2008 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 9-12

  Spiegler, Sebastian ^a   Goĺenia, Bruno ^a   Shalonova, Ksenia ^a   Flach, Peter ^a   Tucker, Roger ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Degrees of supervision; Indigenous languages; Machine learning; Morphology

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN LANGUAGES; DATA SPARSITY; DEGREES OF SUPERVISION; INDIGENOUS LANGUAGES; LIMITED DATA; MACHINE LEARNING; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYZER; PRELIMINARY ANALYSIS; SEMI-SUPERVISED; UNSUPERVISED APPROACHES;

EDUCATION; LINGUISTICS; MORPHOLOGY; ROBOT LEARNING;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 67649528028     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/SLT.2008.4777827     Document Type: Conference Paper

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