Onoma: a linguistically motivated conjugation system for spanish verbs

  • Authors:
  • Luz Rello;Eduardo Basterrechea

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Information and Communication Technologies, Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona, Spain;Molino de Ideas s.a. Nanclares de Oca, Madrid, Spain

  • Venue:
  • CICLing'11 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Computational linguistics and intelligent text processing - Volume Part I
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

In this paper we introduce a new conjugating tool which generates and analyses both existing verbs and verb neologisms in Spanish. This application of finite state transducers is based on novel linguistically motivated morphological rules describing the verbal paradigm. Given that these transducers are simpler than the ones created in previous developments and are easy to learn and remember, the method can also be employed as a pedagogic tool in itself. A comparative evaluation of the tool against other online conjugators demonstrates its efficacy.