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Language Comparison Between Swahili and Malay Languages with Semantic and Pragmatic Problems
REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language; Vol. 2 No. 1 (2020): REiLA : Journal of Research and Innovation in Language; 31-36
The purpose of this study is to explore the similarities and differences of Malay and Kiswahili, which is better known as Swahili. This study intends to investigate the patterns of response from Malays and Kiswahili. In discussing the idea of linguis...
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Enhancing text pre-processing for Swahili language: Datasets for common Swahili stop-words, slangs and typos with equivalent proper words
Data Brief
Natural Language Processing requires data to be pre-processed to guarantee quality models in different machine learning tasks. However, Swahili language have been disadvantaged and is classified as low resource language because of inadequate data for...
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Enhancing African low-resource languages: Swahili data for language modelling
Data Brief
Language modelling using neural networks requires adequate data to guarantee quality word representation which is important for natural language processing (NLP) tasks. However, African languages, Swahili in particular, have been disadvantaged and mo...
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Bilingual Proficiency Effects in Paired-Associate Learning of Vocabulary in an Unfamiliar Language
Biling (Camb Engl)
We investigated three aspects of paired associate learning of vocabulary in an unfamiliar language: monolingual-bilingual differences, effects of dominance and language proficiency, and the possible role of associative strategies. Spanish-English bil...
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UPESI: Swahili translation of the FAST acronym for stroke awareness campaigns in East Africa
Afr J Emerg Med
INTRODUCTION: Despite stroke being a leading cause of death and disability in sub-Saharan Africa, stroke awareness remains a major hurdle to early stroke response and care in the region. To improve stroke awareness, we endeavoured to borrow a leaf fr...
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When Did the Swahili Become Maritime?
Am Anthropol
In this article, we examine an assumption about the historic Swahili of the eastern African coast: that they were a maritime society from their beginnings in the first millennium C.E. Based on historical and archaeological data, we suggest that, desp...
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The reliability, validity and factorial structure of the Swahili version of the 7-item generalized anxiety disorder scale (GAD-7) among adults living with HIV from Kilifi, Kenya
Ann Gen Psychiatry
BACKGROUND: Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) is under-investigated in people living with HIV/AIDS from sub-Saharan Africa. In part, this is due to paucity of culturally appropriate measures for GAD which are psychometrically robust. This study aime...
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In the heart of Swahili: An exploration of data collection methods and corpus curation for natural language processing
Data Brief
Swahili corpus is a dataset generated by collecting written Kiswahili sentences from different sectors that deals with Kiswahili documents. Corpus of intended language is needed in Natural Language Processing (NLP) task to fit algorithm in order to u...
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PP15 The Appropriateness Of Translation Of Patient-Reported Outcome Measures In Swahili-Speaking Regions Of Sub-Saharan Africa – A Case Study
Int J Technol Assess Health Care
INTRODUCTION: Patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) are used to quantify health-related quality of life and generate utility data for economic evaluations. Accurate translation and adaptation of PROMs into non-European languages, such as Swahili,...
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Validation of a Swahili version of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) among adults living with HIV compared to a community sample from Kilifi, Kenya
J Affect Disord Rep
BACKGROUND: Depression remains under-investigated in people living with HIV in sub-Saharan Africa due to paucity of adequately validated measures. This study aimed to validate an adapted version of the 9-item Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9) amon...
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Translation and adaptation of the stroke-specific quality of life scale into Swahili
S Afr J Physiother
BACKGROUND: Stroke care requires a patient-centred, evidence-based and culturally appropriate approach for better patient clinical outcomes. Quality of life necessitates precise measuring using health-related quality measures that are self-reported a...
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A Psychometric Evaluation of the NIH Toolbox Fluid Cognition Tests Adapted for Swahili and Dholuo Languages in Kenyan Children and Adolescents
J Int Neuropsychol Soc
OBJECTIVE: Our objective was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the culturally adapted NIH Toolbox African Languages(®) when used in Swahili and Dholuo-speaking children in western Kenya. METHOD: Swahili-speaking participants were recruited ...
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Swahili questions and answers dataset for aflatoxin knowledge domain
Data Brief
Aflatoxin contamination is a challenge facing food security, health, and trade in Tanzania and other parts of the world. This contamination affects maize, groundnuts, and other crops and animal products. Once contamination occurs, the contaminated cr...
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Cross-cultural adaptation and psychometric properties of the Kessler Scale of Psychological Distress to a traumatic brain injury population in Swahili and the Tanzanian Setting
Health Qual Life Outcomes
BACKGROUND: To evaluate the psychometric properties of a Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale in an injury population in Tanzania. METHODS: Swahili version of the Kessler Psychological Distress scale was developed by translatio...
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Cross-Culture Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the DrInC Questionnaire in Tanzanian Swahili
Front Public Health
Aims: To develop Swahili versions of the Drinker Inventory of Consequences (DrInC) and evaluate its psychometric properties among a mixed population in Tanzania. Methods: A Swahili version of the DrInC was developed by a panel of bilingual Swahili an...
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ADAPTING A STIGMA SCALE FOR ASSESSMENT OF TUBERCULOSIS-RELATED STIGMA AMONG ENGLISH/SWAHILI-SPEAKING PATIENTS IN AN AFRICAN SETTING
Stigma Health
OBJECTIVE: To adapt a validated instrument that quantitatively measures stigma among English/Swahili speaking TB (tuberculosis) patients in Kenya, a high burden TB country. METHODS: Following ethical approval, we elicited feedback on the English and ...
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Validation of a Swahili version of the World Health Organization 5-item well-being index among adults living with HIV and epilepsy in rural coastal Kenya
Glob Health Res Policy
OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychometric properties of the World Health Organization’s five item well-being index (WHO-5) when administered to adults living with HIV or epilepsy in a rural setting at the coast of Kenya....
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The Comoros Show the Earliest Austronesian Gene Flow into the Swahili Corridor
Am J Hum Genet
At the dawn of the second millennium, the expansion of the Indian Ocean trading network aligned with the emergence of an outward-oriented community along the East African coast to create a cosmopolitan cultural and trading zone known as the Swahili C...
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Development and evaluation of the Digit Triplet Test in Swahili language
S Afr J Commun Disord
BACKGROUND: The development of a Digit Triplet Test in the Swahili language is an essential step towards providing accurate hearing assessment for Swahili-speaking populations. OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to develop a Digit Triplet Test in Swahili t...
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Cross-Cultural Adaptation and Psychometric Properties of the AUDIT and CAGE Questionnaires in Tanzanian Swahili for a Traumatic Brain Injury Population
Alcohol Alcohol
AIMS: To develop Swahili versions of the Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test (AUDIT) and CAGE questionnaires and evaluate their psychometric properties in a traumatic brain injury (TBI) population in Tanzania. METHODS: Swahili versions of the A...