Towards Computational Resource Grammars for Runyankore and Rukiga

David Bamutura, Peter Ljunglöf, Peter Nebende


Abstract
In this paper, we present computational resource grammars of Runyankore and Rukiga (R&R) languages. Runyankore and Rukiga are two under-resourced Bantu Languages spoken by about 6 million people indigenous to South- Western Uganda, East Africa. We used Grammatical Framework (GF), a multilingual grammar formalism and a special- purpose functional programming language to formalise the descriptive grammar of these languages. To the best of our knowledge, these computational resource grammars are the first attempt to the creation of language resources for R&R. In Future Work, we plan to use these grammars to bootstrap the generation of other linguistic resources such as multilingual corpora that make use of data-driven approaches to natural language processing feasible. In the meantime, they can be used to build Computer-Assisted Language Learning (CALL) applications for these languages among others.
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2020.lrec-1.347
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Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
Month:
May
Year:
2020
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Marseille, France
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association
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2846–2854
Language:
English
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https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.347
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David Bamutura, Peter Ljunglöf, and Peter Nebende. 2020. Towards Computational Resource Grammars for Runyankore and Rukiga. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 2846–2854, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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