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Bootstrapping Language Description : The case of Mpiemo (Bantu A, Central African Republic)
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- Hammarström, Harald (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för data- och informationsteknik, datavetenskap (GU),Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Computing Science (GU),Department of Computing Science, Chalmers University, Gothenburg
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- Thornell, Christina, 1948 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för orientaliska och afrikanska språk,Department of Oriental and African Languages,Department of African Languages, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg
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- Petzell, Malin, 1972 (author)
- Gothenburg University,Göteborgs universitet,Institutionen för orientaliska och afrikanska språk,Department of Oriental and African Languages,Department of African Languages, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg
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- Westerlund, Torbjörn, 1971- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi
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- English.
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In: Proceedings of the 6th edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference (LREC 2008), 28-30 may 2008, Marrakech, Morocco.
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Abstract
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- 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.
Subject headings
- HUMANIORA -- Språk och litteratur -- Studier av enskilda språk (hsv//swe)
- HUMANITIES -- Languages and Literature -- Specific Languages (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Språkteknologi (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Language Technology (hsv//eng)
- NATURVETENSKAP -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)
- NATURAL SCIENCES -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- Mpiemo
- Bantu A
- Central African Republic
- NLP
- Latent Semantic Analysis
- bootstrapping
- African languages
- Afrikanska språk
- Computational linguistics
- Datorlingvistik
- Acquisition
- Machine Learning
- Endangered languages
- Language modelling
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- ref (subject category)
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