Porting Basque morphological grammars to foma, an open-source tool

Authors:
Iñaki Alegria;Izaskun Etxeberria;Mans Hulden;Montserrat Maritxalar
Affiliations:
IXA Group, University of the Basque Country;IXA Group, University of the Basque Country;University of Arizona, Department of Linguistics;IXA Group, University of the Basque Country
Venue:
FSMNLP'09 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Finite-state methods and natural language processing
Year:
2009

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Abstract

Basque is a morphologically rich language, of which several finite-state morphological descriptions have been constructed, primarily using the Xerox/PARC finite-state tools. In this paper we describe the process of porting a previous description of Basque morphology to foma, an open-source finite-state toolkit compatible with Xerox tools, provide a comparison of the two tools, and contrast the development of a twolevel grammar with parallel alternation rules and a sequential grammar developed by composing individual replacement rules.