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Title
Basics for a grammar engine to verbalize logical theories in isiZulu |
Full text
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/949/1/RuleML14verbZulu.pdf |
Date
2014 |
Author(s)
Keet, Dr. C. Maria; Khumalo, Dr. Langa |
Contributor(s)
Bikakis, Dr A |
Abstract
The language isiZulu is the largest in South Africa by numbers of first language speakers, yet, it is still an underresourced language. In this paper, we approach the grammar piecemeal from a natural language generation approach, and viewed from a potential utility for verbalizing OWL ontologies as a tangible use case. The elaborate rules of the grammar show that a grammar engine and dictionary is essential even for basic verbalizations in OWL 2 EL. This is due to, mainly, the 17 noun classes with embedded semantics and the agglutinative nature of isiZulu. The verbalization of basic constructs requires merging a prefix with a noun and distinguishing an 'and' between a list and linking clauses. |
Subject(s)
Artificial intelligence |
Language
en |
Publisher
Springer |
Relation
http://pubs.cs.uct.ac.za/id/eprint/949/ |
Type of publication
Conference paper |
Format
application/pdf |
Identifier
Keet, Dr. C. Maria and Khumalo, Dr. Langa (2014) Basics for a grammar engine to verbalize logical theories in isiZulu, Proceedings of 8th International Web Rule Symposium (RuleML'14), August 18-20, 2014, Prague, Czech Republic, 8620, 216-225, Department of Computer Science, University of Cape Town, Springer. |
Repository
Cape Town - CS Research Documents, University of Cape Town
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