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Effort versus performance tradeoff in lemmatisation for Uralic languages
Tyers F. M., Bibaeva M.
Lemmatisers in Uralic languages are required for dictionary lookup, an
important task for language learners. We explore how to decide which
of the rule-based and unsupervised categories is more efficient to
invest in. We present a comparison of rule-based and unsupervised
lemmatisers, derived from the Giellatekno finite-state morphology
project and the Morfessor surface segmenter trained on Wikipedia,
respectively. The comparison spanned six Uralic languages, from
relatively high-resource (Finnish) to extremely low-resource (Uralic
languages of Russia). Performance is measured by dictionary lookup
and vocabulary reduction tasks on the Wikipedia corpora. Linguistic
input was quantified, for rule-based as quantity of source code and
state machine complexity, and for unsupervised as the size of the
training corpus; these are normalised against Finnish. Most languages
show performance improving with linguistic input. Future work will
produce quantitative estimates for the relationship between corpus
size, ruleset size, and lemmatisation performance.
Stenin I., LINGUIST List 2015 No. 26.5101
The paper is a review of “A Grammar of Tundra Nenets” by Irina Nikolaeva (2014). This review is mostly a short English digest of a rather volume review article by the same reviewer which has been published in Russian as Stenin (2015) in the Russian journal “Voprosy jazykoznanija”. ...
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Oulu: University of Oulu, 2015.
This book of abstracts contains all the abstracts of CIFU XII presentations that were accepted. Chapter 1 includes the abstracts of the plenary presentations, chapter 2 the abstracts of the general session papers and chapter 3 the abstracts of the papers submitted to the symposia. The abstracts are presented in alphabetical order by authors' last ...
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Kozlov A., Лапшина К. М., Вопросы языкознания 2026 № 4 С. 132–146
This article examines two functions of the suffix -samae in the Pur dialect of Forest Nenets based on fieldwork data: comitative (expression of jointness: ‘with X’) and scalar additive (focus particle with the meaning ‘even X’). The comitative use of the suffix -samae primarily marks an inanimate companion. However, its use is also possible with other types ...
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Starchenko A., Toldova S., Типология морфосинтаксических параметров 2023 Т. 6 № 1 С. 130–148
The study focuses on a previously unrecorded model of split agreement in the mirative paradigm in Kazym Khanty. Split agreement is found when comparing active and passive mirative constructions, as well as
in a limited set of uses of non-finite forms. In the passive voice, unlike the active voice, the 3rd person is unmarked and the ...
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Muraviev N., Linguistica Uralica 2025 Vol. 61 No. 2 P. 106–130
This study investigates the morphosyntactic coding of core arguments in Northern Khanty, with a
focus on the use of active/passive voice and subjective/objective conjugation. The goal is to offer a
more detailed understanding of the coding patterns across dialects. To achieve this, I analyze corpus
data from four Northern Khanty dialects: Obdorsk, Shuryshkary, Tegi, and Kazym Khanty, using ...
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Muraviev N., Voprosy Jazykoznanija 2024 Vol. 5 P. 65–79
The study examines contexts in Northern Khanty where the presence of internal possessors in the noun phrases of the core arguments influences their morphosyntactic coding. Based on the corpus data from the Kazym dialect of Khanty, I investigate contexts in which the presence of a third-person topical possessor in the agent or patient NP leads ...
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Afanasev I., Lyashevskaya O., , in: Structuring Lexical Data and Digitising Dictionaries: Grammatical Theory, Language Processing and Databases in Historical Linguistics.: Boston, Leiden: Brill, 2024. P. 13–35.
Added: January 7, 2025
Лапшина К. М., Вопросы языкознания 2025 № 1 С. 95–118
This paper studies the morphosyntactic properties of bound proprietive and privative markers in some Uralic languages using corpus data and grammatical descriptions. Such affixes are predominantly attached to substantive bases and form derivatives with the meaning of ‘possessing X’ and ‘deprived of X’, respectively.
The first part of the study is devoted to the comparison of ...
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Амелина М. К., Норманская Ю. В., Дыбо А. В. et al., М.: Издательство «Альма Матер», 2022.
I том. Графико-фонетические особенности книг XIX в. ...
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Кошелюк Н. А., Fedotova I., / OSF Preprints. Серия 0 "Arts and Humanities". 2023.
The paper reviews digital resources on the Uralic languages of Siberia, defining their scope and testing applicability for different tasks in linguistic studies. We focus on the resources featuring at least one Uralic language of Siberia. A short case-study for Nenets outlines applicability of the resources and the types of data that can be obtained ...
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Fedotova I., / Series No "Arts and Humanities". 2023.
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Afanasev I., Lyashevskaya O., Rebrikov Stefan et al., Jazykovedny Casopis 2023 Vol. 74 No. 1 P. 225–233
The need to develop tools for historical and regional variations is becoming more urgent in natural language processing. In this paper, we present two candidate systems for lemmatising historical East Slavic lects (Late Old East Slavic and Middle Russian), as well as modern regional East Slavic lects (Belogornoje and Megra): BERT-based end-to-end pipeline with language-specific ...
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Zhivlov M., , in: The Uralic Languages. Second edition.: NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023. Ch. 3 P. 117–175.
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NY, Abingdon: Routledge, 2023.
The Uralic Languages, second edition, is a reference book which brings together detailed discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic structures and features of the languages in the Uralic family.
The Uralic languages are spoken today in a vast geographical area stretching from Dalarna County in Sweden to Dudinka, Taimyr, Russia. There are currently approximately ...
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Bikina D., Denis Rakhman, Vsevolod Potseluev et al., Folia Linguistica 2022 Vol. 56 No. 3 P. 625–665
This paper investigates non-finite forms in Kazym Khanty (Ob-Ugric, Uralic). In Khanty, almost all subordination makes use of one of the two non-finite forms: -ti (nfin.npst) or -əm (nfin.pst). We propose that their uses are best treated under the headings ‘bare non-finites, ‘head-agreement non-finites’, and ‘verb-agreement non-finites’. The three classes are defined based on the subject agreement pattern ...
Added: December 6, 2022
Yuri B. Koryakov, Daria Zhornik, Linguistica Uralica 2022 Vol. 58 No. 2 P. 132–145
This article describes the linguistic situation among the Ivdel (Upper Lozʹva) Mansi, a small community residing mostly in the north of the Sverdlosvk region in Russia. The Ivdel Mansi dialect is actively used by speakers of all generations, while other Northern Mansi dialects (and most other indigenous languages of Northern Siberia) are spoken almost exclusively ...
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Жорник Д. О., Koryakov Y., Вестник угроведения 2022 Т. 12 № 1 С. 185–197
Introduction: the article describes the linguistic situation among the Ivdel (Upper Lozva) Mansi people, a small community residing mostly in the North of the Sverdlovsk Oblast in Russia. The Ivdel Mansi dialect is actively used by speakers of all generations, while other Mansi dialects are spoken almost exclusively by elderly and middle-aged people. The degree ...
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Fedotova I., / Series code "EasyChair Preprints". 2022. No. 9012.
This paper deals with diachronic classification of Mansi dialect groups based on new resources. The previous research on this data was focused on highlighting the phonetic isoglosses between the discovered dialects, so now it is possible to compare the results based on phonetics with the results gained from lexicostatistics. This research aims to define the ...
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Fedotova I., / Series code "EasyChair preprints". 2022. No. 8989.
Nowadays there is a trend for compiling cross-linguistic databases on semantic shifts (DatSemShift 2.0) and colexifications (CLICS), as it serves objectives of typological studies and provides vast data for comparative studies. However, there are no such cross-linguistic databases for diachronic semantic shifts that would describe shifts from a proto-language meaning to the meaning in descendant ...
Added: October 5, 2022
Stiopa Mikhailov, Ural-Altaic Studies 2024 No. 4(55) P. 31–56
Uralic possessive agreement suffixes often develop determiner-like functions. Several authors have suggested monosemic analyses of such functions as derived from the basic possessive meaning. However, recent studies have argued that the functions they investigate must be treated as synchronically independent markers because they do not behave morphosyntactically in the same way that their corresponding proper ...
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Zhivlov M., В кн.: Hämeenmaalta Jamalille: kirja Tapani Salmiselle.: Helda Open Books, 2022. С. 361–375.
Традиционная классификация уральских языков предполагает последовательное бинарное ветвление сначала на самодийские и финно-угорские языки, затем финно-угорских – на угорские и финно-пермские, затем финно-пермских – на пермские и финно-волжские, и, наконец, финно-волжских – на волжские и финно-саамские. Признание за промежуточными узлами в этом дереве генетического статуса (т.е. наличия соответствующих праязыков) предполагает, что эти праязыки должны были ...
Added: April 8, 2022