Exploring the sawa corpus: Collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English-Swahili

Language Resources and Evaluation

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 331-344

  de Pauw, Guy ^a,b   Wagacha, Peter Waiganjo ^b   de Schryver, Gilles Maurice ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NAIROBI   (Kenya)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

African language technology; English; Machine translation; Parallel corpus; Projection of annotation; Swahili

Indexed keywords

EID: 79961208869     PISSN: 1574020X     EISSN: 15728412     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-011-9159-7     Document Type: Article

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