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.
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.
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.