A Language-Independent Feature Schema for Inflectional Morphology

This paper presents a universal morphological feature schema that represents the finest distinctions in meaning that are expressed by overt, affixal inflectional morphology across languages. This schema is used to universalize data extracted from Wiktionary via a robust multidimensional table parsing algorithm and feature mapping algorithms, yielding 883,965 instantiated paradigms in 352 languages. These data are shown to be effective for training morphological analyzers, yielding significant accuracy gains when applied to Durrett and DeNero’s (2013) paradigm learning framework.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

• Publication date

  2015-07-01

• Fields of study

  Linguistics, Computer Science

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  DOI 10.3115/v1/P15-2111
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