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Lexd: A Finite-State Lexicon Compiler for Non-Suffixational Morphologies

P. 133–146.

Swanson D.

This paper presents lexd, a lexicon compiler for languages with non-suffixational morphology, which is intended to be faster and easier to use than existing solutions while also being compatible with other tools. We perform a case-study for Chukchi, comparing against a hand-optimised analyser written in lexc, and find that while lexd is easier to use, performance remains an obstacle to its use at production level. We also compare performance between lexd and hfst-lexc for three analysers still in the prototype phase, finding that lexd is at least as fast, sometimes faster, to compile; we conclude it is a reasonable choice for prototyping new analysers. Future work will explore how to move lexd performance toward production-grade.

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Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2021.

A biscriptual morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar

Tyers F. M., Washington J., Kavitskaya D. et al., , in: Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages Volume 1 (Papers).: Honolulu: Association for Computational Linguistics, 2019. P. 74–80.

This paper describes a weighted finite-state morphological transducer for Crimean Tatar able to analyse and generate in both Latin and Cyrillic orthographies. This transducer was developed by a team including a community member and language expert, a field linguist who works with the community, a Turkologist with computational linguistics expertise, and an experienced computational linguist with Turkic expertise. Dealing with two orthographic systems in the same ...

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