Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language. A case study of neology detection in Lusoga

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Author Gilles-Maurice de Schryver, Minah Nabirye
Title Towards a monitor corpus for a Bantu language. A case study of neology detection in Lusoga
Abstract This paper looks at whether, after two decades of corpus building for the Bantu languages, the time is ripe to begin using monitor corpora. As a proof­-of-­concept, the usefulness of a Lusoga monitor corpus for lexicographic purposes, in case for the detection of neologisms, both in terms of new words and new meanings, is investigated and found useful.
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Keywords Monitor corpus, neology detection, new words, new meanings, Bantu, Lusoga
BibTex 
@inproceedings{euralex_mannheim_towards_2022-1,
address = {Mannheim},
title = {Towards a {Monitor} {Corpus} for a {Bantu} {Language}. {A} {Case} {Study} of {Neology} {Detection} in {Lusoga}},
isbn = {978-3-937241-87-6},
shorttitle = {Euralex (2022)},
url = {},
language = {eng},
booktitle = {Dictionaries and {Society}.  {Proceedings} of the {XX} {EURALEX} {International} {Congress}},
publisher = {IDS-Verlag},
author = {de Schryver, Gilles-Maurice and Nabirye, Minah},
editor = {Klosa-Kückelhaus, Annette and Engelberg, Stefan and Möhrs, Christine and Storjohann, Petra},
year = {2022},
pages = {833--849},
}
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