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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Exploring Haji Gora Haji’s poetics in his collection Shuwari
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2020 This article has its roots in a project carried out with Irene Brunotti (University of Leipzig), the result of which was the publication of a bilingual Swahili-English edition of the latest collection of poems by Haji Gora Haji, a well-known Swahili poet
Flavia Aiello
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From A-Town to ATL: The Politics of Translation in Global Hip Hop Culture [PDF]
, 2015 This article examines the linguistic and cultural tensions in global Hip Hop culture through an analysis of the performance of Gsann, an emcee from the Tanzanian Hip Hop crew X Plastaz, at the 2009 Black Entertainment Television (BET) Hip Hop Awards in ...
Droessler, Holger
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Multilingual assessment of early child development: Analyses from repeated observations of children in Kenya. [PDF]
, 2019 In many low- and middle-income countries, young children learn a mother tongue or indigenous language at home before entering the formal education system where they will need to understand and speak a countrys official language(s).
Ball J. +18 more
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From seed to plant: vegetal images and metaphors in Swahili poetry
Kervan. International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies, 2016 The article analyses a few Swahili poems; the focusing on the use of metaphorical language and the resulting images in order to represent the cultural context in which both classical and modern Swahili poetry play its role as medium of knowledge. Swahili
Graziella Acquaviva
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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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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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, 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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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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