Search Results for author: Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo

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Thinking globally, acting locally – Progress in the African Wordnet Project

no code implementations GWC 2019 Marissa Griesel, Sonja Bosch, Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo

The African Wordnet Project (AWN) includes all nine indigenous South African languages, namely isiZulu, isiXhosa, Setswana, Sesotho sa Leboa, Tshivenda, Siswati, Sesotho, isiNdebele and Xitsonga.

African WordNet: A Viable Tool for Sense Discrimination in the Indigenous African Languages of South Africa

no code implementations GWC 2016 Stanley Madonsela, Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo, Rose Masubelele, James Mafela

The focus of the argument will be on the primary sense of the word ‘hand’, which is part of the body, as lexicalized in three indigenous languages spoken in South Africa, namely, Tshivenḓa, Sesotho sa Leboa and isiZulu.

Semantics of body parts in African WordNet: a case of Northern Sotho

no code implementations GWC 2016 Mampaka Lydia Mojapelo

This paper presents a linguistic account of the lexical semantics of body parts in African WordNet, with special reference to Northern Sotho.

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