Titel: A Corpus-based Survey of Four Electronic Swahili-English Bilingual Dictionaries
Personen:De Pauw, Guy/de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice/Waiganjo Wagacha, Peter
Jahr: 2009
Typ: Aufsatz
Periodikum: Lexikos. Journal of the African Association for Lexicography
Seiten: 340-352
Band: 19
Untersuchte Sprachen: Englisch*English
Schlagwörter: automatische Sprachverarbeitung*automatic speech processing
CD-ROM-Lexikografie*CD-ROM lexicography
Internet-Lexikografie/Online-Lexikografie*internet lexicography/online lexicography
korpusbasierte Lexikografie*corpus-based lexicography
Lemmatisierung*lemmatisation
zweisprachige bzw. mehrsprachige Lexikografie*bilingual/multilingual lexicography
URI: https://lexikos.journals.ac.za/pub/issue/view/29
Zuletzt besucht: 19.10.2020
Abstract: In this article we survey four different electronic bilingual dictionaries for the language pair Swahili-English. Aided by a data-driven morphological analyzer and part-of-speech tagger, we quantify the coverage of the dictionaries on large monolingual corpora of Swahili. In a second series of experiments, we investigate how applicable the dictionaries are as a tool in the development of a machine translation system, by evaluating bilingual coverage on the parallel SAWA corpus. At the same time we attempt to consolidate the dictionaries into a unified lexicographic database and compare the coverage to that of its composite parts.