IIARD International Institute of Academic Research and Development

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICAL THEORY (IJCSMT )

E-ISSN 2545-5699
P-ISSN 2695-1924
VOL. 11 NO. 6 2025
DOI: 10.56201/ijcsmt.vol.11.no6.2025.pg1.6

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Development of Digital Lexicon for Etsako Language

Osumah Thomas O

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Abstract

The preservation of indigenous languages has become increasingly important in today digital world. Etsako language is a low resource language spoken by the people of Edo North in Nigeria. The development of this language digitally is posed with challenges such as lack of standard orthography, bilingual lexicon for performing natural language processing tasks, declining usage by Etsako indigenes and limited digital representation on the web. This paper explores the development of digital bilingual lexicon required for performing machine translation tasks, language documentation and e-learning tool for teaching and learning Etsako language. The research highlights the method used, which include the curation of over 5000 lexicon datasets developed digitally and stored on a cloud storage. A web-based digital lexicon application for Etsako language was developed. Bootstrap 5 and PHP and MySQL were adopted as software development tools. The developed lexicon will enable users to generate English text and its equivalent translation in Etsako language, while the dataset will enable researchers to develop natural language processing applications for Etsako language.

keywords:

Bilingual Lexicon, Machine Translation, Etsako Language, Parallel Corpus, Natural

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