Exploring polysemy and its role in lexical sense relations in African languages: Insights from African Wordnet

Lexical typology and polysemy patterns in African languages

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African WordNet: A Viable Tool for Sense Discrimination in the Indigenous African Languages of South Africa

In promoting a multilingual South Africa, the government is encouraging people to speak more than one language. In order to comply with this initiative, people choose to learn the languages which they do not speak as home language. The African languages are mostly

African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages

The development of the African Wordnet (AWN) has reached a stage of maturity where the first steps towards an application can be attempted. The AWN is based on the expand method, and to compensate for the general resource scarceness of the African languages, variou

Lexical engineering in African languages: Exemplified through Herero

African Wordnet: isiZulu 1.0

Developed using the expand model with Princeton WordNet 2.0 as basis. Each wordnet contains synsets

African Wordnet: Tshivenda 1.0

Developed using the expand model with Princeton WordNet 2.0 as basis. Each wordnet contains synsets