Using technology transfer to advance automatic lemmatisation for Setswana

Authors:
Hendrik J. Groenewald
Affiliations:
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa
Venue:
AfLaT '09 Proceedings of the First Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
Year:
2009

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Abstract

South African languages (and indigenous African languages in general) lag behind other languages in terms of the availability of linguistic resources. Efforts to improve or fast-track the development of linguistic resources are required to bridge this ever-increasing gap. In this paper we emphasize the advantages of technology transfer between two languages to advance an existing linguistic technology/resource. The advantages of technology transfer are illustrated by showing how an existing lemmatiser for Setswana can be improved by applying a methodology that was first used in the development of a lemmatiser for Afrikaans.