Experimental fast-tracking of morphological analysers for Nguni languages

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2008

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 2588-2595

  Bosch, Sonja ^a   Pretorius, Laurette ^a   Podile, Kholisa ^a   Fleisch, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

DEVELOPMENT TIME; FAST-TRACKING; FINITE STATE; LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES; RESEARCH QUESTIONS;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85032615739     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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