Abstract
Resource development mainly focuses on well-described languages with a large amount of speakers. However, smaller languages may also profit from language resources which can then be used in applications such as electronic dictionaries or computer-assisted language learning materials. The development of resources for such languages may face various challenges. Often, not enough data is available for a successful statistical approach and the methods developed for other languages may not be suitable for this specific language. This paper presents a morphological analyzer for Murrinh-Patha, a polysynthetic language spoken in the Northern Territory of Australia. While nouns in Murrinh-Patha only show minimal inflection, verbs in this language are very complex. The complexity makes it very difficult if not impossible to handle data in Murrinh-Patha with statistical, surface-oriented methods. I therefore present a rule-based morphological analyzer built in XFST and LEXC (Beesley and Karttunen, 2003) which can handle the inflection on nouns and adjectives as well as the complexities of the Murrinh-Patha verb.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1048
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Mehmet Uğur Doğan, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 751–758
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/184_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Melanie Seiss. 2012. A Rule-based Morphological Analyzer for Murrinh-Patha. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 751–758, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A Rule-based Morphological Analyzer for Murrinh-Patha (Seiss, LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/184_Paper.pdf