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A quarter century of Swahili corpus building (1999-2024)

Gilles-Maurice de Schryver (UGent)
(2024) Presentation at the start-up meeting for the RJ-funded project ‘Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer’.
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== 1. My way … == 1999: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 1 [1.03m, synchronic] *** 2000: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 2 [2.7m, synchronic] *** 2001 – 2003: Kiswahili Internet Corpus (KIC), version 3 [+ 2.4m, synchronic] *** 2003: Students’ AIDS/HIV Swahili corpora [+110k, LSP] *** 2004: TshwaneDJe Swahili Corpus (TSC), version 1 [14.8m, synchronic] *** 2008: Sawa (a parallel English-Swahili corpus), version 1 [SW 443k // EN 542k, parallel] *** 2011: Sawa (a parallel English-Swahili corpus), version 2 [SW 1.5m // EN 1.2m, parallel] *** 2013: Swahili Literature Corpus, version 1 [1.4m, regional (diachronic)] *** 2014: Swahili Literature Corpus, version 2 [2.1m, diachronic (regional)] *** 2016: TshwaneDJe Swahili Corpus (TSC), version 2 [22m, hybrid] *** 2019: Swahili Linguistics Corpus [400k, LSP] == 2. The other way … == *** Arvi Hurskainen: Helsinki Corpus of Swahili (HCS) *** Sketch Engine: swWaC (Swahili corpus from the web) == 3. The third way … == Hybrid (share, exchange, cooperate)
Keywords
Swahili, Kiswahili, corpus-building, LLM, synchronic, diachronic, hybrid, parallel, LGP, LSP, regional

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MLA
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. “A Quarter Century of Swahili Corpus Building (1999-2024).” Presentation at the Start-up Meeting for the RJ-Funded Project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer,” Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University, 2024.
APA
de Schryver, G.-M. (2024). A quarter century of Swahili corpus building (1999-2024). Gothenburg: Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University.
Chicago author-date
Schryver, Gilles-Maurice de. 2024. “A Quarter Century of Swahili Corpus Building (1999-2024).” Presentation at the Start-up Meeting for the RJ-Funded Project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer.” Gothenburg: Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University.
Chicago author-date (all authors)
de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice. 2024. “A Quarter Century of Swahili Corpus Building (1999-2024).” Presentation at the Start-up Meeting for the RJ-Funded Project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer.” Gothenburg: Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University.
Vancouver
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de Schryver G-M. A quarter century of Swahili corpus building (1999-2024). Presentation at the start-up meeting for the RJ-funded project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer.” Gothenburg: Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University; 2024.
IEEE
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G.-M. de Schryver, “A quarter century of Swahili corpus building (1999-2024),” Presentation at the start-up meeting for the RJ-funded project “Modality in Swahili – Variation, Change and Transfer.” Faculty of Humanities, Gothenburg University, Gothenburg, 2024.
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