Tool / Application
Sounds like ‘Sutu’
Submitted by wanderson on Sun, 2007-02-25 17:12- Login or register to post comments
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A computational morphological analyser for Northern Sotho deverbative nouns: applying Xerox finite-state software to traditional grammar.
Submitted by wanderson on Sun, 2007-02-25 16:55- Login or register to post comments
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Finite state tokenisation of an orthographical disjunctive agglutinative language: The verbal segment of Northern Sotho
Submitted by wanderson on Sun, 2007-02-25 16:47- Login or register to post comments
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African Languages in Danger of Disappearing -- Interactive Atlas
Submitted by Gilles-Maurice on Sun, 2007-02-04 14:49Click here to use the interactive atlas.
Open Question: What about focusing our efforts on these disappearing languages before it's too late? What can we, as computational linguists, do; should we do something?
Speech mining to make African oral patrimony accessible
Submitted by nimaan on Thu, 2007-02-01 10:00- Login or register to post comments
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Automatic transcription of Somali language
Submitted by nimaan on Thu, 2007-02-01 09:57- Login or register to post comments
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Towards automatic transcription of Somali language
Submitted by nimaan on Thu, 2007-02-01 09:49- Login or register to post comments
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Boites à outils TAL pour les langues peu informatisées: le cas du Somali
Submitted by nimaan on Thu, 2007-02-01 09:42- Login or register to post comments
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SALAMA - Swahili Language Manager
Submitted by ahurskai on Fri, 2007-01-26 07:44SALAMA is a rule-based system for managing a number of applications on Swahili. It includes a tokenizer, morphological analyzer, morphological disambiguator, semantic disambiguator, syntactic analyzer, and a text-based machine translation system from Swahili to English.
In morphology we have earlier used finite state methods with two-level description. Recently we have developed an alternative method using a combination of different rule types. We have used pattern matching rules for initial analysis (sufficient e.g. for a spell checker), and the accurate analysis with due ambiguity is produced with post-processing rules.
In disambiguation and syntactic mapping we have used a Constraint Grammar parser (CG2), licensed from Connexor. This parser is also used in isolating and handling multi-word expressions.
SALAMA includes also a number of rules for constituent re-ordering, and for transferring the grammatical and lexical information from Swahili into correct English language.
Google Interface in African Languages
Submitted by Gilles-Maurice on Thu, 2007-01-25 22:54Google currently offers its interface in the following African languages:
| Language | Internet address |
| Afrikaans | http://www.google.com/intl/af/ |
| Amharic | http://www.google.com/intl/am/ |
| Lingála | http://www.google.com/intl/ln/ |
| Sesotho | http://www.google.com/intl/st/ |
| Shona | http://www.google.com/intl/sn/ |
| Somali | http://www.google.com/intl/so/ |
| Swahili | http://www.google.com/intl/sw/ |
| Tigrinya | http://www.google.com/intl/ti/ |
| Twi | http://www.google.com/intl/tw/ |
| Xhosa | http://www.google.com/intl/xh/ |
| Yoruba | http://www.google.com/intl/yo/ |
| Zulu | http://www.google.com/intl/zu/ |
