@inproceedings{davis-etal-2021-computational,
title = "On the Computational Modelling of {M}ichif Verbal Morphology",
author = "Davis, Fineen and
Santos, Eddie Antonio and
Souter, Heather",
editor = "Merlo, Paola and
Tiedemann, Jorg and
Tsarfaty, Reut",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume",
month = apr,
year = "2021",
address = "Online",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.226",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2021.eacl-main.226",
pages = "2631--2636",
abstract = "This paper presents a finite-state computational model of the verbal morphology of Michif. Michif, the official language of the M{\'e}tis peoples, is a uniquely mixed language with Algonquian and French origins. It is spoken across the M{\'e}tis homelands in what is now called Canada and the United States, but it is highly endangered with less than 100 speakers. The verbal morphology is remarkably complex, as the already polysynthetic Algonquian patterns are combined with French elements and unique morpho-phonological interactions. The model presented in this paper, LI VERB KAA-OOSHITAHK DI MICHIF handles this complexity by using a series of composed finite-state transducers to model the concatenative morphology and phonological rule alternations that are unique to Michif. Such a rule-based approach is necessary as there is insufficient language data for an approach that uses machine learning. A language model such as LI VERB KAA-OOSHITAHK DI MICHIF furthers the goals of Indigenous computational linguistics in Canada while also supporting the creation of tools for documentation, education, and revitalization that are desired by the M{\'e}tis community.",
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Markdown (Informal)
[On the Computational Modelling of Michif Verbal Morphology](https://aclanthology.org/2021.eacl-main.226) (Davis et al., EACL 2021)
ACL
- Fineen Davis, Eddie Antonio Santos, and Heather Souter. 2021. On the Computational Modelling of Michif Verbal Morphology. In Proceedings of the 16th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Main Volume, pages 2631–2636, Online. Association for Computational Linguistics.