Collaborative construction of lexicographic and parallel datasets for African languages: first assessment

2021/03/30 by Elvis Mboning Tchiaze, Tchiaze, Elvis Mboning
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Lexicography and Language Studies #Natural Language Processing Techniques #Topic Modeling #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2103.16712

EACL 2021 - AfricaNLP workshop

arxiv created 2021/03/30 · openalex publication_date 2021/03/30 · arxiv updated 2021/04/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

Faced with a considerable lack of resources in African languages to carry out work in Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural Language Understanding (NLU) and artificial intelligence, the research teams of NTeALan association has set itself the objective of building open-source platforms for the collaborative construction of lexicographic data in African languages. In this article, we present our first reports after 2 years of collaborative construction of lexicographic resources useful for African NLP tools.

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