Leveraging on Cross Linguistic Similarities to Reduce Grammar Development Effort for the Under-Resourced Languages: a Case of Kenyan Bantu Languages

Kituku, Benson; Nganga, Wanjiku; Muchemi, Lawrence

doi:10.1109/ict4da53266.2021.9672222

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“…Only the structure of the grammar is shared; Grammar sharing is creating a commonly shared grammar (congruent) for all similar lexical, parameter and syntax rules of the family's languages [10]. In this case, a shared and portable Bantu parametric grammar was developed using the shared cross linguistic principles and parameters of Ekegusii and Kikamba languages in the grammatical framework (GF) [11]. Therefore, this paper aims to bootstrap Swahili grammar into the Bantu parameterized grammar and evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the approach in reducing the development effort.…”

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Evaluating the Bantu parametric grammar in grammatical framework using Swahili grammar

Kituku

Muchemi

2023

IJEECS

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Monologue grammar development for under-resourced languages is very slow and laborious (involves creating rules to generate the computational grammar to enable analysis and synthesis of the language(s) in question). However, the need for computational grammar continues to soar in this technology-driven economy for information synthesis and analysis. This paper aims to set up an experiment in the grammatical framework (GF), to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the Bantu parameterized grammar to bootstrap a new grammar for Swahili. The goal is to investigate how this approach of bootstrapping grammar in a multilingual environment is effective and efficient in reducing the development effort. The bootstrapping approach uses the GF morphology-driven approach to develop portable and unique segments of Swahili grammar. The bootstrapped Swahili grammar resulted in a shareability of 100%, 71.11%, 68.75%, and 91.41% at category linearization, paradigms, parameters and syntax rules respectively. The portability was at 15.55%, 18.57%, and 8.59% at paradigms, parameters and syntax rules, respectively. Finally, this paper contributes in: first, provides an approach that leads to an effective and efficient method for developing and bootstrapping computational grammar for the under-resourced Bantu languages. Secondly, the research provided a Swahili grammar.

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Evaluating the Bantu parametric grammar in grammatical framework using Swahili grammar

Kituku

Muchemi

2023

IJEECS

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Multilingual Text Generation for Abstract Wikipedia in Grammatical Framework: Prospects and Challenges

Ranta

2023

Studies in Computational Intelligence

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Leveraging on Cross Linguistic Similarities to Reduce Grammar Development Effort for the Under-Resourced Languages: a Case of Kenyan Bantu Languages

Cited by 2 publications

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Evaluating the Bantu parametric grammar in grammatical framework using Swahili grammar

Evaluating the Bantu parametric grammar in grammatical framework using Swahili grammar

Multilingual Text Generation for Abstract Wikipedia in Grammatical Framework: Prospects and Challenges

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