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Swahili References

References linked to this website are listed first. These mainly revolve
around language technology as well as dictionary making for Swahili.
After that, a link to general Web resources for Swahili is provided.


2011

 

 

G-M de Schryver

The concept of Simultaneous Feedback
In R.H. Gouws, U. Heid, W. Schweickard & H.E. Wiegand (eds.). 2011. Dictionaries. An international encyclopedia of lexicography. Supplementary volume: Recent developments with special focus on computational lexicography (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science (HSK) series): (6 pages). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.

2010

 

 

G-M de Schryver

State-of-the-Art Software to Support Intelligent Lexicography
In R. Zhu (ed.). 2010. Chinese Lexicographic Research 2: 584–599. S.l.: Chinese Social Sciences.

G. De Pauw,
H.J. Groenewald &
G-M de Schryver (eds.)

Proceedings of the Second Workshop on African Language Technology (AfLaT 2010)
Valletta, Malta: European Language Resources Association.

2009

 

 

G. De Pauw
G-M de Schryver &
P.W. Wagacha

A Corpus-based Survey of Four Electronic Swahili–English Bilingual Dictionaries
Lexikos 19: 340–352.

G. De Pauw &
G-M de Schryver

African Language Technology: The Data-Driven Perspective
In V. Lyding (ed.). 2009. LULCL II 2008 – Proceedings of the Second Colloquium on Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics, Bozen-Bolzano, 13th-14th November 2008 (EURAC book 54): 79–96. Bozen-Bolzano: European Academy.

G-M de Schryver &
B. Neethling (eds.)

AFRILEX-ALASA 2009 Conference Book
Bellville: Xhosa Department, University of the Western Cape.

G. De Pauw
P.W. Wagacha &
G-M de Schryver

The SAWA Corpus: a Parallel Corpus English – Swahili
In G. De Pauw, G-M de Schryver & L. Levin (eds.). 2009. Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages: 9–16. Athens: Association for Computational Linguistics.

G. De Pauw
G-M de Schryver &
L. Levin (eds.)

Proceedings of the EACL 2009 Workshop on Language Technologies for African Languages
Athens: Association for Computational Linguistics.

2008

 

 

G. De Pauw &
G-M de Schryver

Improving the Computational Morphological Analysis of a Swahili Corpus for Lexicographic Purposes
Lexikos 18: 303–318.

G-M de Schryver

Why does Africa need Sinclair?
International Journal of Lexicography 21/3: 267–291.

G. De Pauw,
P.W. Wagacha &
G-M de Schryver

Bootstrapping Machine Translation for the Language Pair English – Kiswahili
In J. Aisbett, G. Gibbon, A.J. Rodrigues, K.K. Migga, R. Nath & G.R. Renardel (eds.). 2008. Special Topics in Computing and ICT Research – Strengthening the Role of ICT in Development: 30–37. Kampala: Fountain Publishers.

2006

 

 

G-M de Schryver,
D. Joffe,
P. Joffe &
S. Hillewaert

Do Dictionary Users Really Look Up Frequent Words? – On the Overestimation of the Value of Corpus-based Lexicography
Lexikos 16: 67–83.

G. De Pauw,
G-M de Schryver &
P.W. Wagacha

Kiswahili Part-of-Speech Tagger – Demo
http://aflat.org/?q=node/10

G. De Pauw,
G-M de Schryver &
P.W. Wagacha

Data-Driven Part-of-Speech Tagging of Kiswahili
In P. Sojka, I. Kopecek & K. Pala (eds.). 2006. Text, Speech and Dialogue, Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Text, Speech and Dialogue – TSD 2006, Brno, Czech Republic, September 11-15, 2006 (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI), subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), volume nr. 4188): 197–204. Berlin: Springer-Verlag.

2004

 

 

S. Hillewaert &
G-M de Schryver

Online Kiswahili (Swahili) – English Dictionary
http://www.goswahili.org/dictionary/

2003

 

 

G-M de Schryver

Online Dictionaries on the Internet: An Overview for the African Languages
Lexikos 13: 1–20.

2002

 

 

G-M de Schryver

Web for/as Corpus: A Perspective for the African Languages
Nordic Journal of African Studies 11/2: 266–282.

2001

 

 

G-M de Schryver &
D.J. Prinsloo

Towards a Sound Lemmatisation Strategy for the Bantu Verb through the Use of Frequency-based Tail Slots – with special reference to Cilubà, Sepedi and Kiswahili
In J.S. Mdee & H.J.M. Mwansoko (eds.). 2001. Makala ya kongamano la kimataifa Kiswahili 2000. Proceedings: 216–242, 372. Dar es Salaam: TUKI, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.

D.J. Prinsloo &
G-M de Schryver

Taking Dictionaries for Bantu Languages into the New Millennium – with special reference to Kiswahili, Sepedi and isiZulu
In J.S. Mdee & H.J.M. Mwansoko (eds.). 2001. Makala ya kongamano la kimataifa Kiswahili 2000. Proceedings: 188–215. Dar es Salaam: TUKI, Chuo Kikuu cha Dar es Salaam.


General Web resources for Swahili


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