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Title Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages
Authors Dorothee Beermann, Lars Hellan and Tormod Hauglud
Abstract We describe existing resources of the Kwa languages Akan and Ga, with a view to transfer of resources well developed for one to the other. While we can build on an IGT corpus for Akan we have a modern digital lexicon for Ga, something we still lack for Akan, while we have only very limited IGT data for Ga. While it is normally the case that annotations from a resource rich language are transferred to a resource poor language, we are here preparing our resources to allow for a transfer approach between two resource-low but closely related languages. We envisage this to be a viable strategy also for other pairs of closely related under resourced languages. Keywords: Akan, Ga, IGT, valence lexicon, morphological tagging, transfer learning between two resource-low but closely related languages.
Full paper Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages
Bibtex @InProceedings{BEERMANN18.18,
  author = {Dorothee Beermann ,Lars Hellan and Tormod Hauglud},
  title = {Convergent development of digital resources for West African Languages},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2018)},
  year = {2018},
  month = {may},
  date = {7-12},
  location = {Miyazaki, Japan},
  editor = {Claudia Soria and Laurent Besacier and Laurette Pretorius},
  publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)},
  address = {Paris, France},
  isbn = {979-10-95546-22-1},
  language = {english}
  }
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