Finite State Morphology of the Nguni Language Cluster: Modelling  and Implementation Issues

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E.

dc.contributor.author	Pretorius, Laurette
dc.contributor.author	Bosch, Sonja E.
dc.date.accessioned	2016-09-30T12:28:17Z
dc.date.available	2016-09-30T12:28:17Z
dc.date.issued	2010
dc.identifier.citation	Pretorius L and SE Bosch. 2010. Finite State Morphology of the Nguni Language Cluster: Modelling and Implementation Issues. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 6062/2010, p. 123-130. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, ISSN 0302-9743 (Print) 1611-3349 (Online).	en
dc.identifier.issn	0302-9743
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10500/21556
dc.identifier.uri	http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-642-14684-8_13
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dc.description.abstract	The paper provides an overview of a project on computational morphological analysers for the Nguni cluster of languages namely Zulu, Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele. These languages are agglutinative and lesser-resourced. The project adopted a finite approach, which is wellsuited to modelling both regular morphophonological phenomena and linguistic idiosyncrasies. The paper includes a brief overview of the morphology of this cluster of languages, then focuses on how the various morphophonological phenomena of Zulu are modelled and implemented using the Xerox finite-state toolkit. The bootstrapping of the Zulu morphological analyser prototype, ZulMorph, to obtain analyser prototypes for Xhosa, Swati and Ndebele, is outlined and experimental results given.	en
dc.language.iso	en	en
dc.publisher	Springer	en
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Lecture notes in Computer Science;6062/2010
dc.title	Finite State Morphology of the Nguni Language Cluster: Modelling and Implementation Issues	en
dc.type	Article	en
dc.description.department	African Languages	en