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.
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L16-1407
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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
Month:
May
Year:
2016
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Portorož, Slovenia
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Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Marko Grobelnik, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
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LREC
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European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
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2562–2567
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https://aclanthology.org/L16-1407
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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).
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A Finite-state Morphological Analyser for Tuvan (Tyers et al., LREC 2016)
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