Theoretical Issues in the Computational Modelling of Yorùbá Narratives

Ninan, Olufemi Deborah; Odejobi, Odetunji A.

doi:10.4230/oasics.cmn.2013.153

A State-of-the-Art Review of Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research

Asubiaro

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,

Igwe

²

2022

Research Anthology on Applied Linguistics and Language Practices

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African languages, including those that are natives to Nigeria, are low-resource languages because they lack basic computing resources such as language-dependent hardware keyboard. Speakers of these low-resource languages are therefore unfairly deprived of information access on the internet. There is no information about the level of progress that has been made on the computation of Nigerian languages. Hence, this chapter presents a state-of-the-art review of Nigerian languages natural language processing. The review reveals that only four Nigerian languages; Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, and Yoruba have been significantly studied in published NLP papers. Creating alternatives to hardware keyboard is one of the most popular research areas, and means such as automatic diacritics restoration, virtual keyboard, and optical character recognition have been explored. There was also an inclination towards speech and computational morphological analysis. Resource development and knowledge representation modeling of the languages using rapid resource development and cross-lingual methods are recommended.

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A State-of-the-Art Review of Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research

Asubiaro

¹

,

Igwe

²

2021

Advances in IT Standards and Standardization Research

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African languages, including those that are natives to Nigeria, are low-resource languages because they lack basic computing resources such as language-dependent hardware keyboard. Speakers of these low-resource languages are therefore unfairly deprived of information access on the internet. There is no information about the level of progress that has been made on the computation of Nigerian languages. Hence, this chapter presents a state-of-the-art review of Nigerian languages natural language processing. The review reveals that only four Nigerian languages; Hausa, Ibibio, Igbo, and Yoruba have been significantly studied in published NLP papers. Creating alternatives to hardware keyboard is one of the most popular research areas, and means such as automatic diacritics restoration, virtual keyboard, and optical character recognition have been explored. There was also an inclination towards speech and computational morphological analysis. Resource development and knowledge representation modeling of the languages using rapid resource development and cross-lingual methods are recommended.

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Development of a Verb Group Machine Translation System

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Elufidodo²

2016

IJCA

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The study reported in this paper considered the translation of English language verbs" group to Yorùbá language verbs" group. The study considered the verb group issue among different issues that affect English to Yorùbá machine translation (EYMT) system. The EYMT is a project that started some years back. The EYMT project was experimented and then raised a lot of issues that raise questions. The Yorùbá language extinction is of concern to the speakers and researchers. The total dominance of English language over Yorùbá language in almost all human endeavours is a major challenge. The linguistic rules and the automata theory are considered for the elicitation of the theoretical framework. The rewrite rules were designed for the two languages. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) were used to design the system software, and python programming language was used for the system implementation. The evaluation was carried out using mean opinion score approach. The expert average was 100 percent and that of the experimental subject respondents was 81 percent while that of the developed system was 95 percent.

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Theoretical Issues in the Computational Modelling of Yorùbá Narratives

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A State-of-the-Art Review of Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research

A State-of-the-Art Review of Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research

A State-of-the-Art Review of Nigerian Languages Natural Language Processing Research

Development of a Verb Group Machine Translation System

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