Bootstrapping NLP tools across low-resourced African languages: an overview and prospects. (arXiv:2210.12027v1 [cs.CL])

Computing and Internet access are substantially growing markets in Southern
Africa, which brings with it increasing demands for local content and tools in
indigenous African languages. Since most of those languages are low-resourced,
efforts have gone into the notion of bootstrapping tools for one African
language from another. This paper provides an overview of these efforts for
Niger-Congo B (`Bantu') languages. Bootstrapping grammars for geographically
distant languages has been shown to still have positive outcomes for morphology
and rules or …

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