Papers by Brian DeRenzi
Pluralizing Nouns across Agglutinating Bantu Languages (C18-1)
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| Challenge: | Pluralization of nouns is a challenge for the Bantu language family . results show that the language's definition of noune classes is inadequate for computational purposes due to non-determinism in prefixes. |
| Approach: | They investigated the approach to pluralization in isiZulu and Runyankore for seven languages across three different Guthrie language zones. |
| Outcome: | The results show that the proposed pluralizers achieved over 93% accuracy and 94% accuracy on a random sample. |