Developing a tag set and tagger for the African languages of South Africa with special reference to Xhosa
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Jens Allwood Leif Grönqvist A P Hendrikse (Contact) Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics University of Gothenburg University of Gothenburg University of South Africa Renströmparken Renströmparken P O Box 392 S-312 98 Gothenburg S-312 98 Gothenburg Pretoria 0003 Sweden Sweden Visiting Scholar Visiting Scholar Department of Linguistics Department of Linguistics Unisa Unisa [email protected] [email protected] [email protected]
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