Third Workshop on Spoken Language Technologies for Under-resourced Languages Cape Town, South Africa May 7-9, 2012

Empirical Measurements on a Sesotho Tone Labeling Algorithm

Mpho Raborife (1), Sabine Zerbian (2), Sigrid Ewert (3)

(1) Human Language Technology Group, Meraka Institute, South Africa
(2) Department of Linguistics, Potsdam University, Germany
(3) School of Computer Science, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa

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.

Index Terms: Sesotho, Tone, Algorithm

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Bibliographic reference.  Raborife, Mpho / Zerbian, Sabine / Ewert, Sigrid (2012): "Empirical measurements on a Sesotho tone labeling algorithm", In SLTU-2012, 133-138.