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    <abstract>This paper discusses the internal structure of complex Esperanto words (CWs). Using a morphological analyzer, possible affixation and compounding is checked for over 50,000 Esperanto lexemes against a list of 17,000 root words. Morpheme boundaries in the resulting analyses were then checked manually, creating a CW dictionary of 28,000 words, representing 56.4% of the lexicon, or 19.4% of corpus tokens. The error percentage of the EspGram morphological analyzer for new corpus CWs was 4.3% for types and 6.4% for tokens, with a recall of almost 100%, and wrong/spurious boundaries being more common than missing ones. For pedagogical purposes a morpheme frequency dictionary was constructed for a 16 million word corpus, confirming the importance of agglutinative derivational morphemes in the Esperanto lexicon. Finally, as a means to reduce the morphological ambiguity of CWs, we provide POS likelihoods for Esperanto suffixes.</abstract>
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Morphological Lexicon of Esperanto with Morpheme Frequencies
%A Bick, Eckhard
%S Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’16)
%D 2016
%8 may
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Portorož, Slovenia
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%X This paper discusses the internal structure of complex Esperanto words (CWs). Using a morphological analyzer, possible affixation and compounding is checked for over 50,000 Esperanto lexemes against a list of 17,000 root words. Morpheme boundaries in the resulting analyses were then checked manually, creating a CW dictionary of 28,000 words, representing 56.4% of the lexicon, or 19.4% of corpus tokens. The error percentage of the EspGram morphological analyzer for new corpus CWs was 4.3% for types and 6.4% for tokens, with a recall of almost 100%, and wrong/spurious boundaries being more common than missing ones. For pedagogical purposes a morpheme frequency dictionary was constructed for a 16 million word corpus, confirming the importance of agglutinative derivational morphemes in the Esperanto lexicon. Finally, as a means to reduce the morphological ambiguity of CWs, we provide POS likelihoods for Esperanto suffixes.
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Markdown (Informal)

[A Morphological Lexicon of Esperanto with Morpheme Frequencies](https://aclanthology.org/L16-1171) (Bick, LREC 2016)

• A Morphological Lexicon of Esperanto with Morpheme Frequencies (Bick, LREC 2016)

ACL

• Eckhard Bick. 2016. A Morphological Lexicon of Esperanto with Morpheme Frequencies. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1075–1078, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).