Syllabification and parameter optimisation in Zulu to English machine translation

We present a series of experiments involving the machine translation of Zulu to English using a well-known statistical software system. Due to morphological complexity and relative scarcity of resources, the case of Zulu is challenging. Against a selection of baseline models, we show that a relative...

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Main Authors: Gideon Kotzé, Friedel Wolff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: South African Institute of Computer Scientists and Information Technologists 2015-12-01
Series:South African Computer Journal
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Online Access:http://sacj.cs.uct.ac.za/index.php/sacj/article/view/323