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Morphological Analysis of Tone Marked Kinyarwanda Text

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Tones are a significant feature in most Bantu languages. However, previous work on morphological analysis of Bantu languages has always missed out the tones. In this paper we describe an approach to carry out morphological analysis of tone marked Kinyarwanda text. Kinyarwanda is an agglutinating tonal Bantu language with a complex morphological structure. Results obtained from these experiments were compared to results obtained with analysis of tone unmarked text. We found that analysis results from tone marked text were less ambiguous compared to similar analysis on tone unmarked text.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Computing and IT, Makerere University, P.O. Box 7062, Kampala

    Jackson Muhirwe

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  1. Department of Modern Languages, University of Helsinki, 00014, Finland

    Anssi Yli-Jyrä

  2. Institute for Quantitative Social Science, Harvard University, 1737, 02138, Cambridge, MA, USA

    András Kornai

  3. Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de L’Informations, Département Infoamtique et Réseaux, CNRS, 75634, Paris Cedex 13, France

    Jacques Sakarovitch

  4. Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, 5600, Eindhoven, MB, The Netherlands

    Bruce Watson

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Muhirwe, J. (2010). Morphological Analysis of Tone Marked Kinyarwanda Text. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Kornai, A., Sakarovitch, J., Watson, B. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14684-8_6

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