Reversing an African-language lexicon: the <i>Northern Sotho Terminology and Orthography No. 4</i> as a case in point

Prinsloo, D.J.; Schryver, Gilles‐Maurice de

doi:10.1080/02572117.2002.10587507

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“…If the answer to this question is "no", how does the lexicographer identify his/her lemmata? De Schryver and Prinsloo (2002) remind lexicographers that, if the modern Bantu dictionary is to be really practical and useful, all verbs and their derivations likely to be looked up need to be included. The purpose of this article is to explore the morphological and semantic fecundity of pend-'love', a simple verb root in Kiswahili.…”

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Lexikos¹

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xi http://lexikos.journals.ac.za Voorwoord Die redakteur wil al die bydraers en keurders bedank dat hulle hierdie nommer van Lexikos moontlik gemaak het. Beide bydraers en keurders het 'n belangrike aandeel aan die handhawing van die gehalte van Lexikos. 'n Spesiale woord van dank moet weer, soos in die verlede, aan me. Riette Ruthven gaan wat met haar bedrewe en professionele setwerk verantwoordelik was vir die aantreklike, maklik leesbare artikels en oorsigtelike tabelle. Me. Tanja Harteveld moet ook bedank word vir die oplossing van verskeie rekenaarmoeilikhede. J.C.M.D. du Plessis Buro van die Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal xii http://lexikos.journals.ac.za xvii http://lexikos.journals.ac.za xviii http://lexikos.journals.ac.za xix http://lexikos.journals.ac.za xx http://lexikos.journals.ac.za

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“…<entry xml:id="alasiri"> <form><orth>alasiri</orth></form> <gramGrp><pos>n</pos></gramGrp> <sense> <def>afternoon (period between 3 p.m. and 5 p.m.)</def> </sense> </entry> All the bracketed information was then turned into separate <note/> elements, in order to make the translation equivalents easily processable (see Prinsloo and de Schryver, 2002, for remarks on processability of translation equivalents). The change was performed by regex search-and-replace, roughly from $(.+)$</def> into </def><note type="hint">$1</note> 2 , with a subsequent review of all the new <note/> elements extracted by an XPath query.…”

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“…That version contained more traps for machine-processing, such as bracketed parts of words -sometimes this was done in a nontrivial manner, as in the entry for adui: <def> enemy(-ies)</def>. SeePrinsloo and de Schryver (2002) for remarks on the non-friendliness of such space-saving devices.…”

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A repository of free lexical resources for African languages

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Wójtowicz

2009

Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages - AfLaT '09

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We report on a project which we believe to have the potential to become home to, among others, bilingual dictionaries for African languages. Kept in a well-structured XML format with several possible degrees of conformance, the dictionaries will be able to get usable even in their early versions, which will be then subject to supervised improvement as user feedback accumulates. The project is FreeDict, part of SourceForge, a well-known Internet repository of open source content. We demonstrate a possible process of dictionary development on the example of one of FreeDict dictionaries, a Swahili-English dictionary that we maintain and have been developing through subsequent stages of increasing complexity and machineprocessability. The aim of the paper is to show that even a small bilingual lexical resource can be submitted to this project and gradually developed into a machineprocessable form that can then interact with other FreeDict resources. We also present the immediate benefits of locating bilingual African dictionaries in this project. We have found FreeDict to be a very promising project with a lot of potential, and the present paper is meant to spread the news about it, in the hope to create an active community of linguists and lexicographers of various backgrounds, where common research subprojects can be fruitfully carried out.

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Spell it the way you like: The inconsistencies that prevail in the spelling of Northern Sotho loanwords

Chokoe

2020

South African Journal of African Languages

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Reversing an African-language lexicon: the Northern Sotho Terminology and Orthography No. 4 as a case in point

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