A Lexical Transducer for the Morphological Segmentation of Swahili Verbs
# SwaRegex: A Lexical Transducer for the Morphological Segmentation of Swahili Verbs
## Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Licenses
- Acknowledgments
- Repository Link
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## Introduction
**SwaRegex** is a rule-based lexical transducer developed for the morphological segmentation of Swahili verbs. This project was carried out as part of my Master's thesis, where the goal was to develop a model that processes Swahili verb morphology using regular expressions. This repository contains the source code for the model, along with a framework for comparing its performance against **XFST**. Instructions for testing the model with XFST are included in the [`xfst_commands.txt`] file.
The main components of this repository include:
- A rule-based model for Swahili verb morphological segmentation.
- The **XFST** tool for comparison, integrated into the repository.
- **XFST** commands for building a lexical transducer in **XFST**.
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## Licenses
This repository is licensed under the **MIT License**.
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## Acknowledgments
- This project was developed as part of my Master's thesis. Special thanks to my thesis advisor and all those who contributed to the development and feedback of this project.
- Thanks to the **XFST** team for providing such a powerful tool for linguistic analysis.
- You can read more about this work in my published paper: SwaRegex: A Lexical Transducer for the Morphological Segmentation of Swahili Verbs.
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### 🎓 **For more information or questions, feel free to reach out!**
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## Repository Link
You can find the repository at:
github.com