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Language Comparison Between Swahili and Malay Languages with Semantic and Pragmatic Problems
REiLA, 2020 The purpose of this study is to explore the similarities and differences of Malay and Kiswahili, which is better known as Swahili. This study intends to investigate the patterns of response from Malays and Kiswahili.
Shintia Dwi Putri
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Data-driven part-of-speech tagging of Kiswahili [PDF]
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De Pauw, G +2 more
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Better Word Representation Vectors Using Syllabic Alphabet: A Case Study of Swahili
Applied Sciences, 2019 Deep learning has extensively been used in natural language processing with sub-word representation vectors playing a critical role. However, this cannot be said of Swahili, which is a low resource and widely spoken language in East and Central Africa ...
Casper S. Shikali +3 more
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Analysis of Grammatical and Lexical Errors in Writing Made by English-Speaking Learners of FL Swahili [PDF]
Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages, 2020 This study applied the Error Analysis approach (Corder, 1967) to analyze written samples of 17 foreign language learners of Swahili who were enrolled in an intensive summer language program in one large university in the United States. Data was collected
Magdalyne Oguti Akiding
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, 2013 We investigate the sources of betting constructions, and specifically their predicates. The notion of risking something of value on an outcome is a complex one. Culturally, some degree of disposability of property is required. The concept is nevertheless
Hollmann, Willem +2 more
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A Psychometric Evaluation of the Big Five Inventory (BFI) in an Eastern Africa Population
Measurement Instruments for the Social Sciences, 2023 The Big Five factor model is one of the most frequently used models in modern personality psychology. It captures personality in terms of five broad dimensions, namely Extraversion, Agreeableness, Conscientiousness, Emotional Stability/Neuroticism, and ...
Harrun H. Garrashi +2 more
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DARTS-ASR: Differentiable Architecture Search for Multilingual Speech Recognition and Adaptation
, 2020 In previous works, only parameter weights of ASR models are optimized under fixed-topology architecture. However, the design of successful model architecture has always relied on human experience and intuition.
Chen, Yi-Chen +3 more
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, 2017 Linguists and archaeologists offer complementary viewpoints on human behaviour and culture in past African communities. While historical-comparative linguistics commonly deals with the immaterial traces of the past in Africa’s present-day languages ...
Bostoen, Koen
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Discovering Usage Patterns for the Swahili amba- Relative Forms cl. 16, 17, 18
Nordic Journal of African Studies, 2005 The paper discovers and describes generalised usage patterns meant for assisting second language Swahili learners in appropriate use of the amba- locatives by applying corpus-based discovery procedures where the actual communication environment of each ...
Maddalena Toscano, Simon Sewangi
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, 2013 This chapter describes a sonorous production of Islamic communitarian privacy in the public spaces of Kenya's major coastal city. As a palpable alternative to a liberal-democratic social imaginary, this communitarian privacy bears a powerful resonance ...
Andrew Eisenberg
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