Evaluating a morphological analyser of Inuktitut

Authors:
Jeremy Nicholson;Trevor Cohn;Timothy Baldwin
Affiliations:
The University of Melbourne, Australia;The University of Sheffield, UK;The University of Melbourne, Australia
Venue:
NAACL HLT '12 Proceedings of the 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Year:
2012

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Abstract

We evaluate the performance of an morphological analyser for Inuktitut across a medium-sized corpus, where it produces a useful analysis for two out of every three types. We then compare its segmentation to that of simpler approaches to morphology, and use these as a pre-processing step to a word alignment task. Our observations show that the richer approaches provide little as compared to simply finding the head, which is more in line with the particularities of the task.