Exploiting Cross-linguistic Similarities in Zulu and Xhosa Computational Morphology

EACL 2009 - Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages, AfLaT 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 96-103

  Pretorius, Laurette ^a   Bosch, Sonja ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AFRICA   (South Africa)

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LEXICAL SIMILARITY; LINGUISTIC SIMILARITIES; NOUNS AND VERBS; PARALLEL TEST; STRUCTURAL SIMILARITY; TEST CORPUS;

MORPHOLOGY;

EID: 85125362974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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