A corpus-based list of frequently used words in Sesotho
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- Johannes Sibeko and Orphée De Clercq (UGent)
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- This article describes the development of a list of frequently used words in written Sesotho. The list has been created with the aim of incorporating it into frequency-based text readability metrics. The list was derived using a corpus-based approach. By leveraging three existing Sesotho corpora, frequency lists could be derived, which were subsequently merged and qualitatively analysed and fine-tuned by an experienced speaker of Sesotho. The main challenges in compiling the list included reconciling the spelling variations, the treatment of abbreviations, and the presence of unexpected words in the preliminary lists. The final list comprises 3037 entries and is made publicly available to the research community.
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Please use this url to cite or link to this publication: http://hdl.handle.net/1854/LU-01H3YA24XJTX1WMWCEBXYEKYET
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- Sibeko, Johannes, and Orphée De Clercq. “A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho.” Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), edited by Rooweither Mabuya et al., Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023, pp. 32–41.
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- Sibeko, J., & De Clercq, O. (2023). A corpus-based list of frequently used words in Sesotho. In R. Mabuya, D. Mthobela, M. Setaka, & M. Van Zaanen (Eds.), Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023) (pp. 32–41). Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Sibeko, Johannes, and Orphée De Clercq. 2023. “A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), edited by Rooweither Mabuya, Don Mthobela, Mmasibidi Setaka, and Menno Van Zaanen, 32–41. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- Sibeko, Johannes, and Orphée De Clercq. 2023. “A Corpus-Based List of Frequently Used Words in Sesotho.” In Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), ed by. Rooweither Mabuya, Don Mthobela, Mmasibidi Setaka, and Menno Van Zaanen, 32–41. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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- 1.Sibeko J, De Clercq O. A corpus-based list of frequently used words in Sesotho. In: Mabuya R, Mthobela D, Setaka M, Van Zaanen M, editors. Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023). Association for Computational Linguistics; 2023. p. 32–41.
- IEEE
- [1]J. Sibeko and O. De Clercq, “A corpus-based list of frequently used words in Sesotho,” in Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023), Dubrovnik, Croatia, 2023, pp. 32–41.
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booktitle = {{Proceedings of the Fourth workshop on Resources for African Indigenous Languages (RAIL 2023)}},
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title = {{A corpus-based list of frequently used words in Sesotho}},
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year = {{2023}},
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