Preparing a corpus of spoken Xhosa

Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Onelisa Slater, Aron Zahran, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, Anne Schumacher


Abstract
The aim of this paper is to describe ongoing work on an annotated corpus of spoken Xhosa. The data consists of natural spoken language and includes regional and social variation. We discuss encountered challenges with preparing such data from a lower-resourced language for corpus use. We describe the annotation, the search interface and the pilot experiments on automatic glossing of this highly agglutinative language.
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2023.clasp-1.7
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Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD)
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September
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2023
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Gothenburg, Sweden
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Ellen Breitholtz, Shalom Lappin, Sharid Loaiciga, Nikolai Ilinykh, Simon Dobnik
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CLASP
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SIGSEM
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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62–67
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Eva-Marie Bloom Ström, Onelisa Slater, Aron Zahran, Aleksandrs Berdicevskis, and Anne Schumacher. 2023. Preparing a corpus of spoken Xhosa. In Proceedings of the 2023 CLASP Conference on Learning with Small Data (LSD), pages 62–67, Gothenburg, Sweden. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Preparing a corpus of spoken Xhosa (Bloom Ström et al., CLASP 2023)
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