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Inferring case paradigms with computational classifiers
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In: ISSN: 1351-3249 ; EISSN: 1469-8110 ; Natural Language Engineering ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03095796 ; Natural Language Engineering, Cambridge University Press (CUP), In press (2021)
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International audience ; The object case inflection in Koalib (Niger-Congo) represents complex patterns that involve phoneme position, syllable structure, and tonal pattern. Few attempts have been made with qualitative and quantitative approaches to identify the rules of the object case paradigms in Koalib. In the current study, information on phonemes, tones, and syllables are automatically extracted from a Koalib sample of 2677 lexemes. The data is then fed to decision-tree-based classifiers to predict the object case paradigms and extract the interactive patterns between the variables. The results improve the predicting accuracy of existing studies and identify the case paradigms predicted by linguistic hypotheses. New case paradigms are also foundby the computational classifiers and explained from a linguistic approach. Our work suggests that such a machine learning approach might become part of the complex theoretical and methodological toolkit needed in language description and linguistic theory development.
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[SHS.LANGUE]Humanities and Social Sciences/Linguistics; African Languages; declension; Koalib; Natural Language Processing; Niger-Congo; object case
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URL: https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-03095796
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Comparing causal-noncausal alternation in three West-African families in contact: Atlantic, Mel and Mande
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02095862 ; 2019 (2019)
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Comparing causal-noncausal alternation in three West-African families in contact: Atlantic, Mel and Mande
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In: https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-02095862 ; 2019 (2019)
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Niger-Congo "noun classes'" conflate gender with deriflection ...
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Niger-Congo "noun classes'" conflate gender with deriflection ...
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The tone system of Bena-Yungur
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In: Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02052863 ; Raija Kramer; Roland Kießling. Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages, Rüdiger Köppe, pp.171-191, 2018, 978-3-89645-233-7 ; https://www.koeppe.de/titel_current-approaches-to-adamawa-and-gur-languages (2018)
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The Historical Origin of Consonant Mutation in the Atlantic Languages
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In: Merrill, John Thomas Mayfield. (2018). The Historical Origin of Consonant Mutation in the Atlantic Languages. UC Berkeley: Linguistics. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1qn4m0bh (2018)
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Nominal affixing in the Kainji languages of northwestern and central Nigeria ...
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The tone system of Bena-Yungur
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In: Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages ; https://halshs.archives-ouvertes.fr/halshs-02052863 ; Raija Kramer; Roland Kießling. Current approaches to Adamawa and Gur languages, Rüdiger Köppe, pp.171-191, 2018, 978-3-89645-233-7 ; https://www.koeppe.de/titel_current-approaches-to-adamawa-and-gur-languages (2018)
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