Benjamin Reeves
2026
Modeling Word-Internal Structures: Morphological Segmentation Across 58 Languages
Vojtěch John | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | Benjamin Reeves
Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
Vojtěch John | Zdeněk Žabokrtský | Benjamin Reeves
Proceedings of the Workshop on Structured Linguistic Data and Evaluation (SLiDE)
We present the largest multilingual experiment to date on word-to-morph segmentation, covering 58 typologically diverse languages. We describe a newly compiled collection of linguistically annotated resources for the task, providing broad coverage and enabling systematic cross-lingual evaluation. Second, we train two neural models on surface morphological segmentation, achieving 81% average word accuracy on the original datasets, slightly outperforming previous methods. Experiments on custom test sets reveal substantial variation in performance, highlighting the need for further harmonization and more robust multilingual approaches.