@inproceedings{todd-etal-2022-unsupervised,
title = "Unsupervised morphological segmentation in a language with reduplication",
author = "Todd, Simon and
Huang, Annie and
Needle, Jeremy and
Hay, Jennifer and
King, Jeanette",
editor = "Nicolai, Garrett and
Chodroff, Eleanor",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology",
month = jul,
year = "2022",
address = "Seattle, Washington",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
url = "https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.2/",
doi = "10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.2",
pages = "12--22",
abstract = "We present an extension of the Morfessor Baseline model of unsupervised morphological segmentation (Creutz and Lagus, 2007) that incorporates abstract templates for reduplication, a typologically common but computationally underaddressed process. Through a detailed investigation that applies the model to Maori, the ̄ Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand, we show that incorporating templates improves Morfessor`s ability to identify instances of reduplication, and does so most when there are multiple minimally-overlapping templates. We present an error analysis that reveals important factors to consider when applying the extended model and suggests useful future directions."
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T Unsupervised morphological segmentation in a language with reduplication
%A Todd, Simon
%A Huang, Annie
%A Needle, Jeremy
%A Hay, Jennifer
%A King, Jeanette
%Y Nicolai, Garrett
%Y Chodroff, Eleanor
%S Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
%D 2022
%8 July
%I Association for Computational Linguistics
%C Seattle, Washington
%F todd-etal-2022-unsupervised
%X We present an extension of the Morfessor Baseline model of unsupervised morphological segmentation (Creutz and Lagus, 2007) that incorporates abstract templates for reduplication, a typologically common but computationally underaddressed process. Through a detailed investigation that applies the model to Maori, the ̄ Indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand, we show that incorporating templates improves Morfessor‘s ability to identify instances of reduplication, and does so most when there are multiple minimally-overlapping templates. We present an error analysis that reveals important factors to consider when applying the extended model and suggests useful future directions.
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%U https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.2
%P 12-22
Markdown (Informal)
[Unsupervised morphological segmentation in a language with reduplication](https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.2/) (Todd et al., SIGMORPHON 2022)
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