rmunro/chichewa

Morphological parser for the Chichewa language # chichewa Morphological parser for the Chichewa language Chichewa (also Chewa and Nyanja) is a Bantu language of about 12 Million speakers, spoken mostly in Malawi and around. This is the code behind the webpage at: robertmunro.com Lines 216-221 have the code commented out that enable it to be run from command line instead of via a web form. The parser implements the description of Chichewa affixes outline in: Mchombo, Sam, (2004). The Syntax of Chichewa. Cambridge Syntax Guides Page references in the comments of the code are references to pages in this text. The parser was used as part of my PhD, so you can use this citation if you want to reference the code in a publication: Munro, Robert (2012). Processing Short Message Communications in Low-Resource Languages. PhD. Stanford, CA It was built to compare a hand-crafted parser with morphological parsers that learned using superivsed and unsupervised machine learning. I am open-sourcing the code so that it may be used more widely by researchers. You can read more about this parser, and the machine learning based approaches, in my PhD and also in: Munro, Robert and Christopher Manning (2010). Subword Variation in Text Message Classification. Annual Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics (NAACL 2010), Los Angeles, CA Chichewa is similar to many related Bantu languages, so the code can be updated to support these. In many cases, updating the code for another language should only involve changing the affixes in the arrays for each paradigm.