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Practical Approach on Implementation of WordNets for South African Languages

Article scientifique 2021 Anglais

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This paper proposes the implementation of WordNets for five South African languages, namely, Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa to be added to open multilingual WordNets (OMW) on natural language toolkit (NLTK).The African WordNets are converted from Princeton WordNet (PWN) 2.0 to 3.0 to match the synsets in PWN 3.0.After conversion, there were 7157, 11972, 1288, 6380, and 9460 lemmas for Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa respectively.Setswana, isiXhosa, Sepedi contains more lemmas compared to 8 languages in OMW and isiZulu contains more lemmas compared to 7 languages in OMW.A library has been published for continuous development of African Word-Nets in OMW using NLTK.

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Sefara, T., Mokgonyane, T., Marivate, V. (2021). Practical Approach on Implementation of WordNets for South African Languages. https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2021.gwc-1.3

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Tshephisho Joseph Sefara TB Mokgonyane Vukosi Marivate

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