AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans
Liesbeth Augustinus, Peter Dirix, Daniel van Niekerk, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde, Gerhard van Huyssteen
Abstract
Compared to well-resourced languages such as English and Dutch, natural language processing (NLP) tools for Afrikaans are still not abundant. In the context of the AfriBooms project, KU Leuven and the North-West University collaborated to develop a first, small treebank, a dependency parser, and an easy to use online linguistic search engine for Afrikaans for use by researchers and students in the humanities and social sciences. The search tool is based on a similar development for Dutch, i.e. GrETEL, a user-friendly search engine which allows users to query a treebank by means of a natural language example instead of a formal search instruction.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1107
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 677–682
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1107
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Liesbeth Augustinus, Peter Dirix, Daniel van Niekerk, Ineke Schuurman, Vincent Vandeghinste, Frank Van Eynde, and Gerhard van Huyssteen. 2016. AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 677–682, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans (Augustinus et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/L16-1107.pdf