dc.contributor.author | Bamutura, David Sabiiti | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2022-03-16T07:34:09Z | |
dc.date.available | 2022-03-16T07:34:09Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Bamutura, D. S. (2021, August). Ry/Rk-Lex: A Computational Lexicon for Runyankore and Rukiga Languages. In Swedish Language Technology Conference and NLP4CALL (pp. 1-12). | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://ir.must.ac.ug/xmlui/handle/123456789/1666 | |
dc.description.abstract | Current research in computational linguistics and NLP requires the existence of language resources. Whereas these resources are available for only a few well-resourced languages, there are many languages that have been neglected. Among the neglected and / or under-resourced languages are Runyankore and Rukiga (henceforth referred to as Ry/Rk). In this paper, we report on Ry/Rk-Lex, a moderately large computational lexicon for Ry/Rk that we constructed from various existing data sources. Ry/Rk are two under-resourced Bantu languages with virtually no computational resources. About 9,400 lemmata have been entered so far. Ry/Rk-Lex has been enriched with syntactic and lexical semantic features, with the intent of providing a reference computational lexicon for Ry/Rk in other NLP (1) tasks such as: morphological analysis and generation; part of speech (POS) tagging; named entity recognition (NER); and (2) applications such as: spell and grammar checking; and cross-lingual information retrieval (CLIR).We have used Ry/Rk-Lex to dramatically increase the lexical coverage of previously developed computational resource grammars for Ry/Rk. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | Sida / BRIGHT Project 317 under the Makerere-Sweden Bilateral Research Programme 2015–2020 and 2020–2021. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.publisher | In Swedish Language Technology Conference and NLP4CALL | en_US |
dc.subject | Ry/Rk-Lex | en_US |
dc.subject | Runyankore and Rukiga | en_US |
dc.subject | Languages | en_US |
dc.subject | Computational linguistics | en_US |
dc.title | Ry/Rk-Lex: A Computational Lexicon for Runyankore and Rukiga Languages | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |