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| Title | A Morphological Processor Based on Foma for Biscayan (a Basque dialect) |
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| Authors | Iñaki Alegria, Garbiñe Aranbarri, Klara Ceberio, Gorka Labaka, Bittor Laskurain and Ruben Urizar |
| Abstract | We present a new morphological processor for Biscayan, a dialect of Basque, developed on the description of the morphology of standard Basque. The database for the standard morphology has been extended for dialects and an open-source tool for morphological description named foma is used for building the processor. Biscayan is a dialect of the Basque language spoken mainly in Biscay, a province on the western of the Basque Country. The description of the lexicon and the morphotactics (or word grammar) for the standard Basque was carried out using a relational database and the database has been extended in order to include dialectal variants linked to the standard entries. XuxenB, a spelling checker/corrector for this dialect, is the first application of this work. Additionally to the basic analyzer used for spelling, a new transducer is included. It is an enhanced analyzer for linking standard form with the corresponding standard ones. It is used in correction for generation of proposals when in the input text appear standard forms which we want to replace with dialectal forms. |
| Topics | Morphology, Tools, systems, applications, Authoring tools, proofing |
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| Bibtex | @InProceedings{ALEGRIA10.150, author = {Iñaki Alegria and Garbiñe Aranbarri and Klara Ceberio and Gorka Labaka and Bittor Laskurain and Ruben Urizar}, title = {A Morphological Processor Based on Foma for Biscayan (a Basque dialect)}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair) and Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard and Joseph Mariani and Jan Odijk and Stelios Piperidis and Mike Rosner and Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |