Abstract
Modeling stress placement has historically been a challenge for computational morphological analysis, especially in finite-state systems because lexically conditioned stress cannot be modeled using only rewrite rules on the phonological form of a word. However, these phenomena can be modeled fairly easily if the lexicon’s internal representation is allowed to contain more information than the pure phonological form. In this paper we describe the stress systems of Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew and we present two prototype finite-state morphological analyzers, one for each language, which successfully implement these stress systems by inserting a small number of control characters into the phonological form, thus conclusively refuting the claim that finite-state systems are not powerful enough to model such stress systems and arguing in favor of the continued relevance of finite-state systems as an appropriate tool for modeling the morphology of historical languages.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.lt4hala-1.15
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages
- Month:
- June
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Rachele Sprugnoli, Marco Passarotti
- Venue:
- LT4HALA
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 108–113
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.lt4hala-1.15
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Daniel Swanson and Francis Tyers. 2022. Handling Stress in Finite-State Morphological Analyzers for Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew. In Proceedings of the Second Workshop on Language Technologies for Historical and Ancient Languages, pages 108–113, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- Handling Stress in Finite-State Morphological Analyzers for Ancient Greek and Ancient Hebrew (Swanson & Tyers, LT4HALA 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-2023-videos/2022.lt4hala-1.15.pdf