Daba: a model and tools for Manding corpora

P. 114–122.

Kirill Maslinsky

This article provides a brief overview of Daba software package created in the course of building corpora for Manding languages. Key software features are motivated by the tasks and problems characteristic of many African languages. The corpus-building model proposed here was initially developed for Bambara Reference Corpus which is available online and is freely accessible. The morphological analysis procedure and corpus annotation scheme are discussed in detail. Daba uses a morpheme-based morphological annotation scheme inspired by the interlinear glossed form of presentation of linguistic examples. A scheme mapping Daba’s morpheme-based morphological information onto traditional word-based corpus annotation is provided. Since Bambara is characterized by a low level of written language standardization special attention is paid to the issues of representing variability in corpus annotation.

Keywords: морфологический анализ, natural language processing, корпусная лингвистика, corpus linguistics, morphological parser, автоматическая обработка естественного языка, африканские языки, African languages, Mande languages, языки манде, corpus annotation, аннотация корпуса

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TALN-RECITAL 2014 Workshop TALAf 2014 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Africaines (TALAf 2014: African Language Processing)

Marseille: Association pour le Traitement Automatique des Langues, 2014.