Swahili Songs of Defiance and Mockery

Part IV Defiance in Groups

Optimizing disambiguation in Swahili

It is argued in this paper that an optimal solution to disambiguation is a combination of linguistically motivated rules and resolution based on probability or heuristic rules. By disambiguation is here meant ambiguity resolution on all levels of language analysis, including morphology and semantics. The discussion is based on Swahili, for which a comprehensive analysis system has been develope...

Atrial Fibrillation: The Science behind Its Defiance

Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most prevalent arrhythmia in the world, due both to its tenacious treatment resistance, and to the tremendous number of risk factors that set the stage for the atria to fibrillate. Cardiopulmonary, behavioral, and psychological risk factors generate electrical and structural alterations of the atria that promote reentry and wavebreak. These culminate in fibrillat...

Towards English - Swahili Machine Translation

Even though the Bantu language of Swahili is spoken by more than fifty million people in East and Central Africa, it is surprisingly resource-scarce from a language technological point of view, an unfortunate situation that holds for most, if not all languages on the continent. The increasing amount of digitally available, vernacular data has prompted researchers to investigate the applicabilit...

Object agreement and specificity in early Swahili.

Schaeffer (1997, 2000) argues that children lack knowledge of specificity because Dutch children omit determiners and fail to scramble pronouns. Avrutin and Brun (2001), however, find that Russian children place arguments correctly according to whether they are specific or non-specific. This paper investigates object agreement and specificity in early Swahili. Object agreement in Swahili is obl...