A GF miniature resource grammar for Tswana: modelling the proper verb.

The Grammatical Framework (GF) not only offers state of the art grammar-based machine translation support between an increasing number of languages through its so-called Resource Grammar Library, but is also fast becoming a de facto framework for developing multilingual controlled natural languages...

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Publicado en:Language Resources & Evaluation Vol. 51; no. 1; pp. 159 - 190
Autores principales: Pretorius, Laurette, Marais, Laurette, Berg, Ansu
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Publicado: Springer Nature Mar2017
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          School of Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Studies , University of South Africa , Pretoria South Africa
          Human Language Technology, Meraka Institute , CSIR , Pretoria South Africa
          School of Languages , North-West University , Potchefstroom South Africa
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        Grammaticality (Linguistics)
        Natural languages
        Machine translating
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        68T50: Natural language processing
        Computational morpho-syntax
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        Multilingual controlled natural language (CNL)
        Natural language processing
        Tswana verb structure
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