The significance of computational morphological for Zulu lexicography
Sonja E. Bosch, Laurette Pretorius · South African Journal of African Languages · 2002
With regard to the significance of computational morphological analysis for Zulu, and more specifically for Zulu lexicography, the aims of this article are the following: Firstly, we discuss computational morphological analysis as an enabling technology in the field of natural language processing (NLP) with specific reference to lexicography. Secondly, we explain how a computational morphological analyser for Zulu is built by using the Xerox finite-state tools. Thirdly, we demonstrate the application of such an analyser by means of examples from Zulu. Finally, we argue that in Zulu lexicography, a computational morphological analyser is an indispensable tool for facilitating some of the basic outputs of electronic corpora.