CebLabify: Automatic Rule-based Syllabification of the Cebuano Language
Conference: NLPIR 2024 - International Conference on Natural Language Processing and Information Retrieval
Publisher: ACM Digital Library
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3711542.3711549
CebLabify introduces a rule-based approach to syllabifying Cebuano text, a foundational step for speech and text applications in a low-resource setting. The work focuses on linguistic consistency and practical usability, so outputs can support downstream tasks such as text preprocessing, pronunciation modeling, and speech-related NLP pipelines. It contributes to broader efforts to improve AI tooling for Philippine languages and make local-language technologies more reliable in real-world deployment contexts.