<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>In many languages, some words can be written in several ways. We call them variants. Values of all their morphological categories are identical, which leads to an identical morphological tag. Together with the identical lemma, we have two or more wordforms with the same morphological description. This ambiguity may cause problems in various NLP applications. There are two types of variants – those affecting the whole paradigm (global variants) and those affecting only wordforms sharing some combinations of morphological values (inflectional variants). In the paper, we propose means how to tag all wordforms, including their variants, unambiguously. We call this requirement “Golden rule of morphology”. The paper deals mainly with Czech, but the ideas can be applied to other languages as well.</p></abstract>

In many languages, some words can be written in several ways. We call them variants. Values of all their morphological categories are identical, which leads to an identical morphological tag. Together with the identical lemma, we have two or more wordforms with the same morphological description. This ambiguity may cause problems in various NLP applications. There are two types of variants – those affecting the whole paradigm (global variants) and those affecting only wordforms sharing some combinations of morphological values (inflectional variants). In the paper, we propose means how to tag all wordforms, including their variants, unambiguously. We call this requirement “Golden rule of morphology”. The paper deals mainly with Czech, but the ideas can be applied to other languages as well.

Golden Rule of Morphology and Variants of Word forms

Journal of Linguistics/Jazykovedný casopis

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In many languages, some words can be written in several ways. We call them variants. Values of all their morphological categories are identical, which leads to...

Golden Rule of Morphology and Variants of Word forms

Publié en ligne: 24 janv. 2018

Pages: 136 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0024

Mots clés
morphology, global variants, inflectional variants, multiple lemma, Golden rule of morphology

© 2017 Jaroslava Hlaváčová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Golden Rule of Morphology and Variants of Word forms

Publié en ligne: 24 janv. 2018

Pages: 136 - 144

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/jazcas-2017-0024

Mots clésmorphology, global variants, inflectional variants, multiple lemma, Golden rule of morphology

© 2017 Jaroslava Hlaváčová, published by De Gruyter Open

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Mots clés
morphology, global variants, inflectional variants, multiple lemma, Golden rule of morphology