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Towards a Morphological Analyzer for the Umbundu Language

Authors Alberto Simões , Bernardo Sacanene , Álvaro Iriarte , José João Almeida , Joaquim Macedo

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  • Computing methodologies → Language resources
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  • Umbundu
  • Angolan Languages
  • Morphological Analysis
  • Spell Checking

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Abstract

In this document we present the first developments on an Umbundu dictionary for a jSpell, a morphological analyzer. Initially some comments are performed regarding the Umbundu language morphology, followed by the discussion on jSpell dictionaries structure and its environment. Last, we describe the Umbundu dictionary bootstrap process and perform some final experiments on its coverage.

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Alberto Simões, Bernardo Sacanene, Álvaro Iriarte, José João Almeida, and Joaquim Macedo. Towards a Morphological Analyzer for the Umbundu Language. In 9th Symposium on Languages, Applications and Technologies (SLATE 2020). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 83, pp. 10:1-10:11, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2020) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SLATE.2020.10

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Alberto Simões
  • 2Ai, School of Technology, IPCA, Barcelos, Portugal
Bernardo Sacanene
  • Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Álvaro Iriarte
  • Centro de Estudos Humanísticos da Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
José João Almeida
  • Algoritmi, Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal
Joaquim Macedo
  • Algoritmi, Departamento de Informática, Universidade do Minho, Braga, Portugal

Funding

This research was partially funded by Portuguese National funds (PIDDAC), through the FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and FCT/MCTES under the scope of the projects UIDB/05549/2020 and UIDB/00319/2020. Bernardo Sacanene acknowledges from the Angolan govenment his PhD grant, through INAGBE (Instituto Nacional de Gestão de Bolsas de Estudos).

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