EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS ON A SESOTHO TONE LABELING ALGORITHM

Mpho Raborife; Sabine Zerbian; Sigrid Ewert

EMPIRICAL MEASUREMENTS ON A SESOTHO TONE LABELING ALGORITHM

Mpho Raborife, Sabine Zerbian, Sigrid Ewert

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Abstract

This article discusses the empirical assessments employed on two versions of a Sesotho tone labeling algorithm. This algorithm uses linguistically-defined Sesotho tonal rules to predict the tone labels on the syllables of Sesotho words. The two versions differed in the number of tonal rules that they employ as well the lexical categories that the tone rules apply to. Both versions were tested on the same input text and we employed t-tests to prove that one version is an improvement on the other.

Original language	English
Pages	133-138
Number of pages	6
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	3rd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2012 - Cape Town, South Africa Duration: 7 May 2012 → 9 May 2012

Conference

Conference	3rd Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-Resourced Languages, SLTU 2012
Country/Territory	South Africa
City	Cape Town
Period	7/05/12 → 9/05/12

Keywords

Algorithm
Sesotho
Tone

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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