Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Author "Faab, Gertrud"

Browsing Research Articles (African Languages) by Author "Faab, Gertrud"

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  • A computational implementation of the Northern Sotho infinitive 
    Faab, Gertrud; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2011-10-21)
    The aim of this article is to describe the infinitive in Northern Sotho based on corpus data and the respective literature; so far, all share the same view: The infinitive is a noun (of class 15) and a verb at the same ...
  • Designing a noun guesser for part of speech tagging in Northern Sotho 
    Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Faab, Gertrud; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (African Language Association of Southern Africa, 2009)
    In this article, we describe an element of a suite of computational tools for assigning word-class tags (as a preparation for part of speech (POS) tagging) to word forms in unrestricted Northern Sotho texts. POS-tagging ...
  • Devices for information presentation in electronic dictionaries 
    Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953-; Heid, Ulrich; Bothma, T.J.D. (Theodorus Jan Daniel); Faab, Gertrud (Buro van die WAT/SU LIS, 2012)
    Electronic dictionaries should support dictionary users by giving them guidance in text production and text reception, alongside a user-definable offer of lexicographic data for cognitive purposes. In this article, we ...
  • Implementation of a part-of-speech ontology : morphemic units of Bantu languages 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Faab, Gertrud; Bosch, S. (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2015)
    In a previous article (Faaß et al, 2012), a first attempt was made at documenting and encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages, i.e. Northern Sotho and Zulu, with the aim of describing and storing ...
  • On the development of a tagset for Northern Sotho with special reference to the issue of standardisation 
    Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth); Faab, Gertrud; Heid, Ulrich; Prinsloo, Danie J. (Daniel Jacobus), 1953- (Bureau for Scholarly Journals, 2008)
    Working with corpora in the South African Bantu languages has up till now been limited to the utilisation of raw corpora. Such corpora, however, have limited functionality. Thus the next logical step in any NLP application ...
  • Towards a part-of-speech ontology : encoding morphemic units of two South African Bantu languages 
    Faab, Gertrud; Bosch, Sonja; Taljard, Elsabe (Elizabeth) (Nordic Association of African Studies, 2012)
    This article describes the design of an electronic knowledge base, namely a morpho-syntactic database structured as an ontology of linguistic categories, containing linguistic units of two related languages of the South ...