Improving the Computational Morphological Analysis of a Swahili Corpus for Lexicographic Purposes

TitleImproving the Computational Morphological Analysis of a Swahili Corpus for Lexicographic Purposes
Publication TypeJournal Article
Year of Publication2008
AuthorsDe Pauw, Guy, and de Schryver Gilles-Maurice
Journal TitleLexikos
Volume18
Pagination303–318
Abstract

Computational morphological analysis is an important first step in the automatic treatment of natural language and a useful lexicographic tool. This article describes a corpus-based approach to the morphological analysis of Swahili. We particularly focus our discussion on its ability to retrieve lemmas for word forms and evaluate it as a tool for corpus-based dictionary compilation.

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