@InProceedings{byamugisha-keet-derenzi:2017:INLG20172,
  author    = {Byamugisha, Joan  and  Keet, C. Maria  and  DeRenzi, Brian},
  title     = {Toward an NLG System for Bantu languages: first steps with Runyankore (demo)},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Natural Language Generation},
  month     = {September},
  year      = {2017},
  address   = {Santiago de Compostela, Spain},
  publisher = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {154--155},
  abstract  = {There are many domain-specific and language-specific NLG systems, of which it
	may be possible to adapt to related domains and languages. The languages in the
	Bantu language family have their own set of features distinct from other major
	groups, which therefore severely limits the options to bootstrap an NLG system
	from existing ones. We present here our first proof-of-concept application for
	knowledge-to-text NLG as a plugin to the Protege 5.x ontology development
	system, tailored to Runyankore, a Bantu language indigenous to Uganda. It
	comprises a basic annotation model for linguistic information such as noun
	class, an implementation of existing verbalisation rules and a CFG for verbs,
	and a basic interface for data entry.},
  url       = {http://www.aclweb.org/anthology/W17-3523}
}