Computational Morphologies for Small Uralic Languages
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This article presents a set of morphological tools for small Uralic languages. Various Hungarian research groups specialized in Finno-Ugric linguistics and a Hungarian language technology company (MorphoLogic) have initiated a project with the goal of producing annotated electronic corpora for small Uralic languages. The languages described include Mordvin, Udmurt (Votyak), Komi (Zyryan), Mansi (Vogul), Khanty (Ostyak), Tundra Nenets (Yurak) and Nganasan (Tavgi). Most of these languages are endangered, some of them are on the verge of extinction, so their documentation is an urgent scientific task. The most important subgoal of the project was to create morphological analyzers for the languages involved.1 In the project, we used the morphological analyzer engine called Humor (’High speed Unification MORphology’) developed at MorphoLogic (Prószéky and Kis (1999)), which had been first successfully applied to another Uralic (Finno-Ugric) language, Hungarian, and later to various Slavic, Germanic and Romance languages. We supplemented the analyzer with two additional tools: a lemmatizer and a morphological generator. We present the tools through their application to the Komi language, specifically to the standard Komi-Zyryan dialect. Creating analyzers for the two Samoyed languages involved in the project,
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تاریخ انتشار 2005