A compiler for morphological analysers and generators based on finite-state transducers

  1. Pastor Pina, Herminia
  2. Iturraspe, Amaia
  3. Garrido Alenda, Alicia
  4. Montserrat Buendia, Sandra
  5. Forcada Zubizarreta, Mikel L.
Journal:
Procesamiento del lenguaje natural

ISSN: 1135-5948

Year of publication: 1999

Issue: 25

Pages: 93-98

Type: Article

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Abstract

Morphological analyzers and generators are essential parts of many natural-language processing systems such as machine translation systems; they may be efficiently implemented as finite-state transducers. This paper describes a compiler that converts a morphological dictionary (a dictionary augmented with descriptions of the flexive paradigms) into a C program implementing a very compact finite-state transducer that performs the desired morphological analysis or generation task.