@inproceedings{bosch-etal-2006-towards,
title = "Towards machine-readable lexicons for {S}outh {A}frican {B}antu languages",
author = "Bosch, Sonja E. and
Pretorius, Laurette and
Jones, Jackie",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}{'}06)",
month = may,
year = "2006",
address = "Genoa, Italy",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/597_pdf.pdf",
abstract = "Lexical information for South African Bantu languages is not readily available in the form of machine-readable lexicons. At present the availability of lexical information is restricted to a variety of paper dictionaries. These dictionaries display considerable diversity in the organisation and representation of data. In order to proceed towards the development of reusable and suitably standardised machine-readable lexicons for these languages, a data model for lexical entries becomes a prerequisite. In this study the general purpose model as developed by Bell {\&} Bird (2000) is used as a point of departure. Firstly, the extent to which the Bell {\&} Bird (2000) data model may be applied to and modified for the above-mentioned languages is investigated. Initial investigations indicate that modification of this data model is necessary to make provision for the specific requirements of lexical entries in these languages. Secondly, a data model in the form of an XML DTD for the languages in question, based on our findings regarding (Bell {\&} Bird, 2000) and (Weber, 2002) is presented. Included in this model are additional particular requirements for complete and appropriate representation of linguistic information as identified in the study of available paper dictionnaries.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[Towards machine-readable lexicons for South African Bantu languages](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2006/pdf/597_pdf.pdf) (Bosch et al., LREC 2006)
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