Abstract
The composition of richly-inflected words in morphologically complex languages can be a challenge for language learners developing literacy. Accordingly, Lane and Bird (2020) proposed a finite state approach which maps prefixes in a language to a set of possible completions up to the next morpheme boundary, for the incremental building of complex words. In this work, we develop an approach to morph-based auto-completion based on a finite state morphological analyzer of Plains Cree (nêhiyawêwin), showing the portability of the concept to a much larger, more complete morphological transducer. Additionally, we propose and compare various novel ranking strategies on the morph auto-complete output. The best weighting scheme ranks the target completion in the top 10 results in 64.9% of queries, and in the top 50 in 73.9% of queries.- Anthology ID:
- 2022.acl-long.232
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2022
- Address:
- Dublin, Ireland
- Editors:
- Smaranda Muresan, Preslav Nakov, Aline Villavicencio
- Venue:
- ACL
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3284–3294
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2022.acl-long.232
- DOI:
- 10.18653/v1/2022.acl-long.232
- Cite (ACL):
- William Lane, Atticus Harrigan, and Antti Arppe. 2022. Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree. In Proceedings of the 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (Volume 1: Long Papers), pages 3284–3294, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.
- Cite (Informal):
- Interactive Word Completion for Plains Cree (Lane et al., ACL 2022)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/naacl24-info/2022.acl-long.232.pdf