A State of the Art Review on Natural Language Processing applied to the Malagasy Language

Based on the growing mass of information of all kinds to be processed and to facilitate human/machine dialogue, research teams and language industries are still developing applications integrating automatic natural language processing techniques. Natural Language Processing (NLP) is a discipline on the border of linguistics and computer science that concerns the application of computer programs and techniques to all aspects of human language. NLP is an area of research that is still open. It has extended its applications in various fields and applied them in several languages worldwide. This paper will review the NLP methods and resources that have been performed on the Malagasy language only. Recently, work on the automatic processing of the Malagasy language occurs even if the language is part of the group of under-endowed languages. This will allow researchers who are interested in the Malagasy language to update themselves in terms of the work already carried out, and the challenges that may be envisaged in future.