Deriving Morphological Analyzers from Example Inflections

Markus Forsberg, Mans Hulden


Abstract
This paper presents a semi-automatic method to derive morphological analyzers from a limited number of example inflections suitable for languages with alphabetic writing systems. The system we present learns the inflectional behavior of morphological paradigms from examples and converts the learned paradigms into a finite-state transducer that is able to map inflected forms of previously unseen words into lemmas and corresponding morphosyntactic descriptions. We evaluate the system when provided with inflection tables for several languages collected from the Wiktionary.
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L16-1410
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
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May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2578–2583
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1410
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Markus Forsberg and Mans Hulden. 2016. Deriving Morphological Analyzers from Example Inflections. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2578–2583, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
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