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- Hammarström, Harald, et al.
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Bootstrapping Language Description : The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)
- 2008
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Ingår i: Proceedings of the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), 28-30 may 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Linguists have long been producing grammatical decriptions of yet undescribed languages. This is a time-consuming process, which has already adapted to improved technology for recording and storage. We present here a novel application of NLP techniques to bootstrap analysis of collected data and speed-up manual selection work. To be more precise, we argue that unsupervised induction of morphology and part-of-speech analysis from raw text data is mature enough to produce useful results. Experiments with Latent Semantic Analysis were less fruitful. We exemplify this on Mpiemo, a so-far essentially undescribed Bantu language of the Central African Republic, for which raw text data was available.
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