Abstract
This paper describes the development of free/open-source finite-state morphological transducers for three Turkic languages―Kazakh, Tatar, and Kumyk―representing one language from each of the three sub-branches of the Kypchak branch of Turkic. The finite-state toolkit used for the work is the Helsinki Finite-State Toolkit (HFST). This paper describes how the development of a transducer for each subsequent closely-related language took less development time. An evaluation is presented which shows that the transducers all have a reasonable coverage―around 90%―on freely available corpora of the languages, and high precision over a manually verified test set.- Anthology ID:
- L14-1143
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2014
- Address:
- Reykjavik, Iceland
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Hrafn Loftsson, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3378–3385
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1207_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Jonathan Washington, Ilnar Salimzyanov, and Francis Tyers. 2014. Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages. In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'14), pages 3378–3385, Reykjavik, Iceland. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Finite-state morphological transducers for three Kypchak languages (Washington et al., LREC 2014)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2014/pdf/1207_Paper.pdf