SUB-PROJECT ON TOOLS

Problem Statement:
We are lacking certain tools or, if we have them at all, they are inadequate. We need tools for handling, creating and analysis.
• Tools for harvesting; e.g., extraction, structuring, annotation
• Tools and methods to improving analytic ability; e.g., morphological engines, POS tagging, text normalization
• Tools and methods for improving corpus quality; e.g., orthographic correction, spelling correction, normalizing orthography
• Tools to manually review and correct automated processing; e.g., training POS tagging
• Tools to manually create seed data

Research Questions:
• Are the tools available known to end-users?
• Do the tools available support African languages?
• Are there fundamental issues to deal with regard to African languages when it comes to the use of particular tools?
• What tools are necessary to make inputs and outputs (impact) measurable

Resources:
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