Papers by Joan Byamugisha
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. |
Noun Class Disambiguation in Runyankore and Related Languages (2022.coling-1)
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| Challenge: | Bantu languages are still computationally under-resourced due to their complex grammatical structure . morphological analyzers, text generation tools and a morphology analyzer are among the tools used . |
| Approach: | They propose a syntactic and semantic method to disambiguate among singular nouns . they use the nearest neighbors of a query word as semantic generalizations based on Runyankore . |
| Outcome: | The proposed method improves accuracy in three Bantu languages compared to using only the syntactic or semantic approach. |