A Finite-state Morphological Analyser for Tuvan
Francis Tyers, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Aelita Salchak, Jonathan Washington
Abstract
~This paper describes the development of free/open-source finite-state morphological transducers for Tuvan, a Turkic language spoken in and around the Tuvan Republic in Russia. The finite-state toolkit used for the work is the Helsinki Finite-State Toolkit (HFST), we use the lexc formalism for modelling the morphotactics and twol formalism for modelling morphophonological alternations. We present a novel description of the morphological combinatorics of pseudo-derivational morphemes in Tuvan. An evaluation is presented which shows that the transducer has a reasonable coverage―around 93%―on freely-available corpora of the languages, and high precision―over 99%―on a manually verified test set.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1407
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 2562–2567
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1407
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Francis Tyers, Aziyana Bayyr-ool, Aelita Salchak, and Jonathan Washington. 2016. A Finite-state Morphological Analyser for Tuvan. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 2562–2567, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- A Finite-state Morphological Analyser for Tuvan (Tyers et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-1/L16-1407.pdf