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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Extending the usage of adjectives in the Zulu AfWN
%A Marais, Laurette
%A Pretorius, Laurette
%Y Rigau, German
%Y Bond, Francis
%Y Rademaker, Alexandre
%S Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference
%D 2023
%8 January
%I Global Wordnet Association
%C University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country
%F marais-pretorius-2023-extending
%X The African languages Wordnet (AfWN) for Zulu (ZWN) was built using the expand approach, which relies on the translation of concepts in the Princeton WordNet (PWN), while retaining their PWN lexical categories. In this paper the focus is on the adjective as PWN lexical category. What is considered adjectival information (provided both attributively and predicatively) in English, is usually verbalised quite differently in Zulu - often as verb or copulative constructions - as may be seen by inspecting the Zulu written forms in “adjective” entries in ZWN. These written forms are not complete Zulu verb or copulative constructions and in order for them to be useful, tense, polarity and agreement have to be added. This paper presents a grammar-based approach to recover important morphosyntactic information implicit in the ZWN “adjective” written forms in order to derive a tool that would assist a user of the ZWN to render and analyse correct full forms automatically as desired by the context in which an “adjective” is used.
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%P 303-314

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[Extending the usage of adjectives in the Zulu AfWN](https://aclanthology.org/2023.gwc-1.37) (Marais & Pretorius, GWC 2023)

• Extending the usage of adjectives in the Zulu AfWN (Marais & Pretorius, GWC 2023)

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• Laurette Marais and Laurette Pretorius. 2023. Extending the usage of adjectives in the Zulu AfWN. In Proceedings of the 12th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 303–314, University of the Basque Country, Donostia - San Sebastian, Basque Country. Global Wordnet Association.