A Taxonomy for Afrikaans and Dutch Compounds

The Development of Dutch and Afrikaans Language Resources for Compound Boundary Analysis.

In most languages, new words can be created through the process of compounding, which combines two or more words into a new lexical unit. Whereas in languages such as English the components that make up a compound are se…

AfriBooms: An Online Treebank for Afrikaans

Compared to well-resourced languages such as English and Dutch, natural language processing (NLP) tools for Afrikaans are still not abundant. In the context of the AfriBooms project, KU Leuven and the North-West Universi…

Automatic Compound Processing: Compound Splitting and Semantic Analysis for Afrikaans and Dutch

Deciphering Related Languages

We present a method for translating texts between close language pairs. The method does not require parallel data, and it does not require the languages to be written in the same script. We show results for six language …

AfriKI: Machine-in-the-Loop Afrikaans Poetry Generation

This paper proposes a generative language model called AfriKI. Our approach is based on an LSTM architecture trained on a small corpus of contemporary fiction. With the aim of promoting human creativity, we use the model…