A high-level morphological description language exploiting inflectional paradigms

  • Authors:
  • Peter Anick;Suzanne Artemieff

  • Affiliations:
  • Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA;Digital Equipment Corporation, Marlboro, MA

  • Venue:
  • COLING '92 Proceedings of the 14th conference on Computational linguistics - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1992

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Abstract

A high-level language for the description of inflectional morphology is presented, in which the organization of word formation rules into an inheritance hierarchy of paradigms allows for a natural encoding of the kinds of rules typically presented in grammar books. We show how the language, composed of orthographic rules, word formation rules, and paradigm inheritance, can be compiled into a run-time data structure for efficient morphological analysis and generation with a dynamic secondary storage lexicon.