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Title
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A corpus-based survey of four electronic Swahili-English bilingual dictionaries
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Abstract
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| In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili-English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on large monolingual corpora of Swahili. In a second series of experiments, we investigate how applicable the dictionaries are as a tool in the development of a machine translation system, by evaluating bilingual coverage on the parallel SAWA corpus. At the same time we attempt to consolidate the dictionaries into a unified lexicographic database and compare the coverage to that of its composite parts. |
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Language
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English
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Source (journal)
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Lexikos / Universiteit Stellenbosch. - Stellenbosch
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Publication
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Stellenbosch
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2009
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ISSN
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1684-4904
2224-0039
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Volume/pages
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19
(2009)
, p. 340-352
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ISI
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000272533900019
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