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Browsing Research Outputs (African Languages) by Author "Bosch, Sonja E."

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'Abbreviated nouns' in African languages : a morphological, semantic and lexicographic perspective

Bosch, S. E.; Prinsloo, D. J. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2002)

This article focuses on morphological and semantic analysis as well as lexicographic treatment of a specific type of compound noun whose initial part is a so-called ‘abbreviated noun’, which in the case of Zulu is -so- or ...
African languages – is the writing on the screen?

Bosch, Sonja E. (2007)

The trends emerging in the natural language processing (NLP) of African languages spoken in South Africa, are explored in order to determine whether research in and development of such NLP is keeping abreast of international ...
Aspects of subject conjuction in Zulu

Bosch, S. E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 1988)

Bantu languages have a number of grammatical genders which are paired into singular/plural classes. The purpose of this article is to find solutions for some of the agreement arising from the conjunction of two or more ...
A Comparison of Approaches to Word Class Tagging: Disjunctively vs. Conjunctively Written Bantu Languages

Taljard, Elsabe; Bosch, Sonja E. (2006)

Northern Sotho and Zulu are two South African Bantu languages that make use of different writing systems, viz. a disjunctive and a conjunctive writing system respectively. In this article it is argued that the different ...
Computational aids for Zulu natural language processing

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2003)

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 ...
Computational Morphological Analysers and Machine-Readable Lexicons for South African Bantu Languages

Bosch, Sonja E.; Jones, J; Pretorius, Laurette; Anderson, W (2007)

In this paper the development of computational morphological analysers for six South African Bantu languages is discussed. Due to the rich agglutinating morphological structures of these languages, the morphological ...
Containing overgeneration in Zulu computational morphology

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette (2008)

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 ...
Derivational Relations in English, Czech and Zulu Wordnets

Bosch, Sonja E.; Fellbaum, Christiane; Pala, Karel (AOSIS, 2008)

This article investigates one kind of cross-part-of-speech relation for English, Czech and Zulu lexical resources in the form of semantic networks (wordnets). Many languages have rules whereby new words are derived ...
Development of reusable resources for Human Language Technologies (HLT) applications:practice and experience.

Jones, J.; Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette; Prinsloo, D.J. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2005)

Language resources, by their very nature, serve as a repository oflinguistic knowledge. They are therefore essential in the building and improvement of natural language applications. The aim of this paper is to elaborate ...
The Effectiveness of morphological rules for an isiZulu spelling checker

Bosch, Sonja E.; Roald, Eiselen (UNISA, 2005)

This paper shows how morphological analysis contributes to solving the challenges posed by the development of a spelling checker for an agglutinative language like isiZulu. It demonstrates how the incremental implementation ...
Experimental Bootstrapping of Morphological Analysers for Nguni Languages

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette; Fleisch, Axel (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2008)

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

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (Springer, 2010)

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 ...
A finite-state approach to linguistic constraints in Zulu morphological analysis

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette (2006)

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 ...
Finite-State Computational Morphology - Treatment of the Zulu Noun

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2002)
Finite-State Computational Morphology: An Analyzer Prototype for Zulu

Pretorius, Laurette; Bosch, Sonja E. (2003)

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. ...
Possible origins of the possessive particle -ka- in Zulu.

Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 1997)

The aim of this article is to trace some of the possible origins of the possessive particle -ka- in Zulu, which occurs when the possessor noun is a noun of class 1a.Research done so far on the nature of -ka-,does not provide ...
The significance of computational morphological analysis for Zulu lexicography

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2002)

Language resources, by their very nature, serve as a repository oflinguistic knowledge. They are therefore essential in the building and improvement of natural language applications. The aim of this paper is to elaborate ...
Special Issue : Human Language Technologies

Roux, Justus C.; Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2005)

This Special Issue of the South African Joumal of African Languages is dedicated to Human Language Technologies (HLT), and is the first of its kind in the history of the joumal. It provides an overview of some of the ...
Subject agreement with denominal copulatives in Zulu.

Bosch, Sonja E. (African Language Association of Southern Africa., 1986)

Subject agreement with denominal copulatives appears not to be compulsory, as is the case with verbs.Zulu grammarians are not,however,of one mind regarding the usage of the subject concord in denominal copulative constructions. ...
Towards machine-readable lexicons for South African Bantu languages

Bosch, Sonja E.; Pretorius, Laurette; Jones, Jackie (2007)

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. ...

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