Swahili
Jambo Kiswahili SpellChecker 9D
Submitted by Guy on Fri, 2006-12-15 15:49Kiswahili spellchecker for use in the localized Kiswahili version of OpenOffice. The spellchecker has been developed as the result of the compilation of numerous Swahili word lists. Jambo Spellchecker contains a total of 70.000 Swahili words.
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Sheng - English Lexicon
Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2006-12-14 02:21An on-line Sheng-English English-Sheng translation dictionary.
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Swahili - English Dictionary
Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2006-12-14 02:20An on-line Kiswahili-English English-Kiswahili translation dictionary.
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Kiswahili verb conjugator
Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2006-12-14 02:07This program automatically provides conjugations for a given word stem.
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Number to Swahili Words Converter
Submitted by Guy on Thu, 2006-12-14 01:53This program converts a number (of less than 10 digits) to a Swahili word. So, '4' will give 'nne', which means 'four' in Swahili.
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The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary (Kamusi)
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2006-12-12 16:26The Internet Living Swahili Dictionary is a collaborative work by people all over the world. Together we are working to establish new dictionaries of the Swahili language - Kiswahili - both within Swahili and between Swahili and English.
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CNTS - Language Technology Group
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2006-12-12 15:41CNTS is a research center of the Department of Linguistics of the University of Antwerp (UA) in Antwerp, Belgium, engaged in research in computational linguistics and psycholinguistics. The CNTS - Language Technology Group has a strong tradition in the application of machine learning techniques for natural language processing. Recently, CNTS has also started investigating the applicability of unsupervised learning methods and knowledge transfer techniques for the annotation and linguistic description of African languages, particularly Kiswahili and the local languages of Kenya.
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Kiswahili Part-of-Speech Tagger - Demo
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2006-12-12 14:58This demo showcases a broad coverage part-of-speech tagger for Kiswahili. It retrieves the morpho-syntactic categories for words in a sentence. This system uses the Memory-Based Tagger trained on the Helsinki Corpus of Swahili.
Type in the text you want to tag
Example: Hapo ni kwa nini Sahara halina maji na kwa nini simba na shungi.
Authors:
Guy De Pauw: CNTS - Language Technology Group, University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium, guy [dot] depauw [at] ua [dot] ac [dot] be
Gilles-Maurice de Schryver: African Languages and Cultures, Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium, gillesmaurice [dot] deschryver [at] ugent [dot] be
Peter Waiganjo Wagacha: School of Computing and Informatics, University of Nairobi, Nairobi, Kenya, waiganjo [at] uonbi [dot] ac [dot] ke
Paper
Data-driven part-of-speech tagging of Kiswahili
Submitted by Guy on Tue, 2006-12-12 14:41