Towards an electronic dictionary of Tamajaq language in Niger

Chantal Enguehard (1) , Issouf Modi (2)

1 LINA - Laboratoire d'Informatique de Nantes Atlantique
2 Section Tamajaq de la Direction des Enseignements du Cycle de Base1 du Ministère de l'Education Nationale du Niger

We present the Tamajaq language and the dictionary we used as main linguistic resource in the two first parts. The third part details the complex morphology of this language. In the part 4 we describe the conversion of the dictionary into electronic form, the inflectional rules we wrote and their implementation in the Nooj software. Finally we present a plan for our future work.

Keywords: Endangered Langage; African language; Natural Language Processing; Tamajaq Language; Under-Ressourced Language; African language.

Keywords: Traitement Automatique de la langue naturelle; NOOJ; langue tamajaq; langue peu dotée; langue en danger; langue africaine.

Domains: Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Linguistics

Chantal Enguehard, Issouf Modi. Towards an electronic dictionary of Tamajaq language in Niger. 12th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics EACL-09. W07 Workshop Language Technologies for African Languages., Mar 2009, Athène, Greece. publication électronique. ⟨halshs-00409455⟩