Finite-state computational morphology - treatment of the Zulu noun
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Authors
Pretorius, L
Bosch, SE
Issue Date
2001
Type
Article
Language
en
Keywords
Natural language processing , Computational morphology , Finite-state technology , Morphological analysis , Agglutinating languages , Zulu , Noun
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Abstract
Morphological analysis is a basic enabling application for further kinds of natural lan guage processing, including part-of-speech tagging, parsing, translation and other high-level applications. Automated morphological analyzers exist for many of the European languages, but have not been reported for any of the indigenous languages
of southern Africa. Our project in computational morphological analysis/generation includes the production of
an automated morphological analyzer/generator for Zulu, using finite-state methods and tools. In this paper we elaborate on the use of finite-state methods in computational morphology, and report on our treatment of the Zulu noun.
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Citation
Pretorius, L., Bosch, S.E. (2001) Finite-state computational morphology - treatment of the Zulu noun. Hardware, Software and Peopleware: Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists, University of South Africa, Pretoria, 25-28 September 200