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WordNets for South African Languages

Domaine:

natural language processing

Type de record:

dataset
Créateur:
Tshephisho SefaraTumisho MokgonyaneVukosi Marivate
Éditeur:
Zenodo
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Data statement of the WordNets for South Africa languages

 

Data set name: WordNets for South Africa languages

Citation: Sefara, T.J., Mokgonyane, T.B. and Marivate, V., 2021. Practical Approach on Implementation of WordNets for South African Languages. In Proceedings of the Eleventh Global Wordnet Conference.

 

Data set developer(s): Sefara, T.J. (https://speechtech.co.za), Mokgonyane, T.B. (https://sites.google.com/vi…) and Marivate, V. (https://vima.co.za)

Data statement authors: Sefara, T.J. (https://speechtech.co.za), Mokgonyane, T.B. (https://sites.google.com/vi…) and Marivate, V. (https://vima.co.za)

Link to the dataset: zenodo link here

Dataset license: Creative Commons Attributio…

 

A. CURATION RATIONALE

The dataset of the WordNets for South Africa languages has been modified to be compatible with OMW in NLTK. The dataset contains Wordnets of Setswana, Sepedi, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isXhosa. Originally the datasets was created for WordNet 2.0. Now the dataset is converted to WordNet 3.0 using the sensemap files from Princeton WordNets.

B. LANGUAGE VARIETY/VARIETIES

The language of the datasets are Standard ISO639-2:

  • Sepedi (nso)

  • Setswana (tsn)

  • isiXhosa (xho),

  • isiZulu (zul)

  • Tshivenda (ven)

 

C. SPEAKER DEMOGRAPHIC

N/A

 

D. ANNOTATOR DEMOGRAPHIC

N/A

 

E. SPEECH SITUATION

N/A

 

F. TEXT CHARACTERISTICS

N/A

 

G. RECORDING QUALITY

N/A

 

H. OTHER

We provide a link to the library that utilise this dataset: JosephSefara/AfricanWordNet

 

I. PROVENANCE APPENDIX

N/A

 

About this document

A data statement is a characterisation of a dataset that provides context to allow developers and users to better understand how experimental results might generalise, how software might be appropriately deployed, and what biases might be reflected in systems built on the software.

Initially published by: Sonja E Bosch and Marissa Griesel. 2017. Strategies for building WordNets for under-resourced languages: The case of African languages. Literator (Potchefstroom. Online), 38(1):1–12.

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doi.org

Tasks

embeddings

Languages

SetswanaSotho, NorthernVendaXhosaZulu

Tags

wordnetwordnetsafrican wordnet

Licenses

info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessCreative Commons Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode

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