The development of finite-state morphological analyser prototypes for a variety of languages belonging to the Bantu language family, based on underlying machine-readable lexicons that conform to common lexical specifications ...

The development of a large-coverage, computational morphological analyser for Zulu requires the modelling not only of the regular phenomena often associated with word formation, but also the idiosyncratic behaviour that ...

This paper addresses the experimental bootstrapping of the development of broad-coverage finite-state morphological analysers for Xhosa, Swati and (Southern) Ndebele by using an existing prototype of a morphological analyser ...

Conceptually, finite-state approaches are well suited to the modelling and implementation of regular linguistic (in this case morphophonological) behaviour. However, it is common knowledge that, while morphophonological ...

As one of the largest of the 11 official languages of South Africa, Zulu is spoken by approximately 9 million people. It forms part of a language family which is characterized by rich agglutinating morphological structures. ...

Lexical information for South African Bantu languages is not readily available in the form of machine-readable lexicons. At present the availability of lexical information is restricted to a variety of paper dictionaries. ...

This article reports on a practical, semi-automated procedure towards creating a clean, morphologically annotated Zulu corpus of tractable size that could eventually serve both as a gold standard for Zulu computational ...