@inproceedings{maehlum-ivanova-2023-phonotactics,
    title = "Phonotactics as an Aid in Low Resource Loan Word Detection and Morphological Analysis in Sakha",
    author = "M{\ae}hlum, Petter  and
      Ivanova, Sardana",
    editor = "Ilinykh, Nikolai  and
      Morger, Felix  and
      Dann{\'e}lls, Dana  and
      Dobnik, Simon  and
      Megyesi, Be{\'a}ta  and
      Nivre, Joakim",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Resources and Representations for Under-Resourced Languages and Domains (RESOURCEFUL-2023)",
    month = may,
    year = "2023",
    address = "T{\'o}rshavn, the Faroe Islands",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/fix-sig-urls/2023.resourceful-1.14/",
    pages = "111--120",
    abstract = "Obtaining information about loan words and irregular morphological patterns can be difficult for low-resource languages. Using Sakha as an example, we show that it is possible to exploit known phonemic regularities such as vowel harmony and consonant distributions to identify loan words and irregular patterns, which can be helpful in rule-based downstream tasks such as parsing and POS-tagging. We evaluate phonemically inspired methods for loanword detection, combined with bi-gram vowel transition probabilities to inspect irregularities in the morphology of loanwords. We show that both these techniques can be useful for the detection of such patterns. Finally, we inspect the plural suffix -{\CYRL}{\CYRA}{\cyrr} [-LAr] to observe some of the variation in morphology between native and foreign words."
}