Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)

Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor 2023-05 Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia text conference publication rail-2023-resources https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.0/ Automatic Spell Checker and Correction for Under-represented Spoken Languages: Case Study on Wolof Thierno Ibrahima Cissé author Fatiha Sadat author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication cisse-sadat-2023-automatic 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.1 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.1/ 2023-05 1 10 Unsupervised Cross-lingual Word Embedding Representation for English-isiZulu Derwin Ngomane author Rooweither Mabuya author Jade Abbott author Vukosi Marivate author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication ngomane-etal-2023-unsupervised 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.2 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.2/ 2023-05 11 17 Preparing the Vuk’uzenzele and ZA-gov-multilingual South African multilingual corpora Richard Lastrucci author Jenalea Rajab author Matimba Shingange author Daniel Njini author Vukosi Marivate author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication lastrucci-etal-2023-preparing 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.3 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.3/ 2023-05 18 25 SpeechReporting Corpus: annotated corpora of West African traditional narratives Ekaterina Aplonova author Izabela Jordanoska author Timofey Arkhangelskiy author Tatiana Nikitina author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication aplonova-etal-2023-speechreporting 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.4 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.4/ 2023-05 26 31 A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho Johannes Sibeko author Orphée De Clercq author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication sibeko-de-clercq-2023-corpus 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.5 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.5/ 2023-05 32 41 Deep learning and low-resource languages: How much data is enough? A case study of three linguistically distinct South African languages Roald Eiselen author Tanja Gaustad author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication eiselen-gaustad-2023-deep 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.6 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.6/ 2023-05 42 53 IsiXhosa Intellectual Traditions Digital Archive: Digitizing isiXhosa texts from 1870-1914 Jonathan Schoots author Amandla Ngwendu author Jacques De Wet author Sanjin Muftic author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication schoots-etal-2023-isixhosa 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.7 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.7/ 2023-05 54 64 Analyzing political formation through historical isiXhosa text analysis: Using frequency analysis to examine emerging African Nationalism in South Africa Jonathan Schoots author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication schoots-2023-analyzing 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.8 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.8/ 2023-05 65 75 Evaluating the Sesotho rule-based syllabification system on Sepedi and Setswana words Johannes Sibeko author Mmasibidi Setaka author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication sibeko-setaka-2023-evaluating 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.9 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.9/ 2023-05 76 85 Towards a Swahili Universal Dependency Treebank: Leveraging the Annotations of the Helsinki Corpus of Swahili Kenneth Steimel author Sandra Kübler author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication steimel-etal-2023-towards 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.10 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.10/ 2023-05 86 96 Comparing methods of orthographic conversion for Bàsàá, a language of Cameroon Alexandra O’neil author Daniel Swanson author Robert Pugh author Francis Tyers author Emmanuel Ngue Um author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication oneil-etal-2023-comparing 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.11 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.11/ 2023-05 97 105 Vowels and the Igala Language Resources Mahmud Momoh author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication momoh-2023-vowels 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.12 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.12/ 2023-05 106 114 Investigating Sentiment-Bearing Words- and Emoji-based Distant Supervision Approaches for Sentiment Analysis Ronny Mabokela author Mpho Roborife author Turguy Celik author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication mabokela-etal-2023-investigating 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.13 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.13/ 2023-05 115 125 Natural Language Processing in Ethiopian Languages: Current State, Challenges, and Opportunities Atnafu Lambebo Tonja author Tadesse Destaw Belay author Israel Abebe Azime author Abinew Ali Ayele author Moges Ahmed Mehamed author Olga Kolesnikova author Seid Muhie Yimam author 2023-05 text Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) Rooweither Mabuya editor Don Mthobela editor Mmasibidi Setaka editor Menno Van Zaanen editor Association for Computational Linguistics Dubrovnik, Croatia conference publication tonja-etal-2023-natural 10.18653/v1/2023.rail-1.14 https://aclanthology.org/2023.rail-1.14/ 2023-05 126 139