Sefara, Tshephisho JMokgonyane, TB2021-03-072021-03-072021-03Sefara, T.J. & Mokgonyane, T. 2021. Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826 .978-9-464027-31-0http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826This paper proposes the implementation of WordNets for five South African languages, namely, Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa to be added to open multilingual WordNets (OMW) on natural language toolkit (NLTK). The African WordNets are converted from Princeton WordNet (PWN) 2.0 to 3.0 to match the synsets in PWN 3.0. After conversion, there were 7157, 11972, 1288, 6380, and 9460 lemmas for Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa respectively. Setswana, isiXhosa, Sepedi contains more lemmas compared to 8 languages in OMW and isiZulu contains more lemmas compared to 7 languages in OMW. A library has been published for continuous development of African WordNets in OMW using NLTK.FulltextenWordNetSouth African languagesNatural language toolkitNLTKPractical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languagesConference PresentationSefara, T. J., & Mokgonyane, T. (2021). Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826Sefara, Tshephisho J, and TB Mokgonyane. "Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages." <i>Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 18 - 22 January 2021</i> (2021): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826Sefara TJ, Mokgonyane T, Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages; 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826 .TY - Conference Presentation AU - Sefara, Tshephisho J AU - Mokgonyane, TB AB - This paper proposes the implementation of WordNets for five South African languages, namely, Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa to be added to open multilingual WordNets (OMW) on natural language toolkit (NLTK). The African WordNets are converted from Princeton WordNet (PWN) 2.0 to 3.0 to match the synsets in PWN 3.0. After conversion, there were 7157, 11972, 1288, 6380, and 9460 lemmas for Sepedi, Setswana, Tshivenda, isiZulu and isiXhosa respectively. Setswana, isiXhosa, Sepedi contains more lemmas compared to 8 languages in OMW and isiZulu contains more lemmas compared to 7 languages in OMW. A library has been published for continuous development of African WordNets in OMW using NLTK. DA - 2021-03 DB - ResearchSpace DP - CSIR J1 - Proceedings of the 11th Global Wordnet Conference, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa, 18 - 22 January 2021 KW - WordNet KW - South African languages KW - Natural language toolkit KW - NLTK LK - https://researchspace.csir.co.za PY - 2021 SM - 978-9-464027-31-0 T1 - Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages TI - Practical approach on implementation of Wordnets for South African languages UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10204/11826 ER -24195