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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages
%A Bosch, Sonja
%A Griesel, Marissa
%Y Bond, Francis
%Y Vossen, Piek
%Y Fellbaum, Christiane
%S Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference
%D 2018
%8 January
%I Global Wordnet Association
%C Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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%X The development of the African Wordnet (AWN) has reached a stage of maturity where the first steps towards an application can be attempted. The AWN is based on the expand method, and to compensate for the general resource scarceness of the African languages, various development strategies were used. The aim of this paper is to investigate the usefulness of the current isiZulu Wordnet in an application such as language learning. The advantage of incorporating the wordnet of a language into a language learning system is that it provides learners with an integrated application to enhance their learning experience by means of the unique sense identification features of wordnets. In this paper it will be demonstrated by means of a variety of examples within the context of a basic free online course how the isiZulu Wordnet can offer the language learner improved decision support.
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%P 306-313

Markdown (Informal)

[African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages](https://aclanthology.org/2018.gwc-1.36) (Bosch & Griesel, GWC 2018)

• African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages (Bosch & Griesel, GWC 2018)

ACL

• Sonja Bosch and Marissa Griesel. 2018. African Wordnet: facilitating language learning in African languages. In Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 306–313, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Global Wordnet Association.