We discuss the open question of the relation between semantics and nominal class assignment in Swahili. We approach the problem from a computational perspective, aiming first to quantify the extent of this relation, and then to explicate its nature, taking extra care to suppress morphosyntactic confounds. Our results are the first of their kind, providing a quantitative evaluation of the semantic cohesion of each nominal class, as well as a nuanced taxonomic description of its semantic content.

翻译：本文探讨斯瓦希里语中语义与名词类别指派之间关系的开放性问题。我们从计算视角切入该问题，首先旨在量化这种关系的程度，进而阐释其本质，并特别注意排除形态句法因素的干扰。我们的研究结果属该领域首次尝试，不仅对各名词类别的语义内聚性进行了量化评估，还对其语义内容提供了细致的分类学描述。