Finite-state description of semitic morphology: a case study of Ancient Akkadian

  • Authors:
  • Laura Kataja;Kimmo Koskenniemi

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland;University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • COLING '88 Proceedings of the 12th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1988

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Abstract

This paper discusses the problems of description and computational implementation of phonology and morphology in Semitic languages, using Ancient Akkadian as an example. Phonological and morphophonological variations are described using standard finite-state two-level morphological rules. Interdigitation, prefixation and suffixation are described by using an intersection of two lexicons which effectively defines lexical representations of words.