A unification-based approach to morpho-syntactic parsing of agglutinative and other (highly) inflectional languages

  • Authors:
  • Gábor Prószéky;Balázs Kis

  • Affiliations:
  • MorphoLogic, Budapest, Hungary;MorphoLogic, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • ACL '99 Proceedings of the 37th annual meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics on Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

This paper introduces a new approach to morpho-syntactic analysis through Humor 99 (High-speed Unification Morphology), a reversible and unification-based morphological analyzer which has already been integrated with a variety of industrial applications. Humor 99 successfully copes with problems of agglutinative (e.g. Hungarian, Turkish, Estonian) and other (highly) inflectional languages (e.g. Polish, Czech, German) very effectively. The authors conclude the paper by arguing that the approach used in Humor 99 is general enough to be well suitable for a wide range of languages, and can serve as basis for higher-level linguistic operations such as shallow parsing.