AfLaT.org - Swahili

Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English—Swahili

Guy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:32:50 +0000

Exploring the sawa corpus: collection and deployment of a parallel corpus English—Swahili, De Pauw, Guy, Wagacha Peter W., and de Schryver Gilles-Maurice , Language Resources and Evaluation, 09/2011, Volume 45, Issue 3, p.331-344, (2011)

Expanding a multilingual media monitoring and information extraction tool to a new language: Swahili

Guy — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 09:31:33 +0000

Expanding a multilingual media monitoring and information extraction tool to a new language: Swahili, Steinberger, Ralf, Ombuya Sylvia, Kabadjov Mijail, Pouliquen Bruno, Rocca Leo Della, Belyaeva Jenya, de Paola Monica, Ignat Camelia, and van der Goot Erik , Language Resources and Evaluation, 09/2011, Volume 45, Issue 3, p.311-330, (2011)

Go Swahili . org

Gilles-Maurice — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 08:48:22 +0000

URL:

https://goswahili.org/

Description:

A one-stop portal for Swahili, where you will find the Web's most popular Swahili-English dictionary, the only freely available tools to analyse Swahili, and the largest collection of references to Swahili.

Swahili Translation

Guy — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:04:52 +0000

URL:

https://translate.google.com

Description:

Google translate is now available for Swahili

CBM Tanzania Kiswahili Translator

Guy — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 06:45:28 +0000

URL:

https://www.cbm-tz.org/swahili/bin/translator/translator.htm

Description:

A small but functional automatic translator English to Swahili

Swahili - English Dictionary

djoffe — Thu, 19 Mar 2009 04:53:49 +0000

URL:

https://africanlanguages.com/swahili/dictionary/

Description:

Software-installable Swahili - English Dictionary (created by TshwaneDJe HLT), with over 16,000 entries and phrases. Integrates into Microsoft Word to display instant lookup results as you work. Other features include bilingual 'linked view', integration with Google web and image search, basic decomposition-based searching, and instant display of related cross-references. The dictionary is corpus-based, and includes hundreds of real-world usage examples.

On-line publications on language technology for African languages

ahurskai — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:50:06 +0000

URL:

https://www.njas.helsinki.fi

Description:

Nordic Journal of African Studies (NJAS) is an access-free peer-reviewed journal publishing, inter alia, articles on language technology related to African languages. Since the web page contains hundreds of articles from various fields, relevant articles may be found using the page-internal search.
NJAS gets subsidy from the Nordic Committee for the Publication of Periodicals in the Humanities and Social Sciences (NOP-HS).

Helsinki Corpus of Swahili

ahurskai — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 07:28:54 +0000

URL:

https://www.csc.fi/english/research/software/hcs

Description:

Helsinki Corpus of Swahili contains 12,5 million words of text from a number of current news sources as well as extracts from a large number of books. Typing errors of texts have been manually corrected. The corpus was tagged with SALAMA without human intervention. With a signed contract the corpus is available for scientific research without charge.
The corpus can be accessed through the web-based browser Lemmie 2.0. A direct access to the Linux server is also possible. Currently it is not possible to access the English glosses with Lemmie 2.0. So the users needing the English glosses might wish to use the Linux interface.
Currently HCS does not have syntactic tags. In future we wish to enrich the corpus with those tags, together with a number of new features, including a large number of idioms and multi-word expressions. Also new texts will be added.

SALAMA - Swahili Language Manager

ahurskai — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 06:44:27 +0000

URL:

https://www.njas.helsinki.fi/salama

Description:

SALAMA 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

Gilles-Maurice — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 21:54:27 +0000

URL:

https://www.google.com/language_tools

Description:

Google currently offers its interface in the following African languages:

Language	Internet address
Afrikaans	https://www.google.com/intl/af/
Amharic	https://www.google.com/intl/am/
Lingála	https://www.google.com/intl/ln/
Sesotho	https://www.google.com/intl/st/
Shona	https://www.google.com/intl/sn/
Somali	https://www.google.com/intl/so/
Swahili	https://www.google.com/intl/sw/
Tigrinya	https://www.google.com/intl/ti/
Twi	https://www.google.com/intl/tw/
Xhosa	https://www.google.com/intl/xh/
Yoruba	https://www.google.com/intl/yo/
Zulu	https://www.google.com/intl/zu/