Harouna Naroua


2014

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Design and Implementation of a Spell Checker for Hausa Language (Étude et conception d’un correcteur orthographique pour la langue haoussa) [in French]
Lawaly Salifou | Harouna Naroua
TALN-RECITAL 2014 Workshop TALAf 2014 : Traitement Automatique des Langues Africaines (TALAf 2014: African Language Processing)

2012

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Règles de formation des noms en hausa (Formation rules of names in Hausa) [in French]
Abdou Mijinguini | Harouna Naroua
JEP-TALN-RECITAL 2012, Workshop TALAf 2012: Traitement Automatique des Langues Africaines (TALAf 2012: African Language Processing)

2008

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Evaluation of Virtual Keyboards for West-African Languages
Chantal Enguehard | Harouna Naroua
Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08)

West African languages are written with alphabets that comprize non classical Latin characters. It is possible to design virtual keyboards which allow the writing of such special characters with a combination of keys. During the last decade, many different virtual keyboards had been created, without any standardization to fix the correspondence between each character and the keys to press to obtain it. We define a grid to evaluate such keyboards and apply it to five virtual keyboards in relation with the five main languages of Niger (Fulfulde, Hausa, Kanuri, Songhai-Zarma, Tamashek), Bambara and Soninke from Mali and Dyoula from Burkina Faso. We conclude hat the African LLACAN keyboard should be recommended in Niger because it covers all the characters used in the alphabets of the main languages of this country, it produces valid Unicode codes and it minimizes the number of keys to be pressed.