Formalizing the Morphology of Rromani Adjectives

Masako Watabe, Max Silberztein


Abstract
This paper presents a set of linguistic resources that formalizes the morphological behavior of simple Rromani adjectives. We describe the formalization of the adjectives’ morphology and the implementation with the NooJ linguistic platform of an electronic dictionary associated with a formal morpho-syntactic grammar. We can then apply this set of resources to a corpus to evaluate the resources and automatically annotate adjectival forms in Rromani texts. The final set of resources can then be used to identify each Rromani dialectal variant and can be used as a pedagogical tool to teach Rromani as a second language.
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Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages
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March
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2025
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Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
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Jordan Lachler, Godfred Agyapong, Antti Arppe, Sarah Moeller, Aditi Chaudhary, Shruti Rijhwani, Daisy Rosenblum
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Masako Watabe and Max Silberztein. 2025. Formalizing the Morphology of Rromani Adjectives. In Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages, pages 1–10, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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