International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science (IJITCS)
IJITCS Vol. 8, No. 2, 8 Feb. 2016
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A Morphological Analyzer for Reduplicated Manipuri Adjectives and Adverbs: Applying Compile-Replace
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Author(s)
Ksh. Krishna B Singha
1,*
Kh. Dhiren Singha
2
Bipul Syam Purkaystha
1
Index Terms
Restricted and Complete Reduplication, Compile-Replace Algorithm, Regular Expression, Morphological Analysis, Finite-State Transducers, Manipuri language
Abstract
Finite-state implementations naturally denote concatenations of morphemes and are limited to modeling concatenative morphotactics. The non-concatenative structure, such as reduplication, in the computational morphology of many world languages cannot be handled completely by finite-state technology. This paper describes the non-concatenative phenomena of reduplication, occurs in the adjective and adverb word classes of Manipuri language using the formalism of finite-state morphology tools and techniques. The discussion covers the non-concatenative nature and the challenges in capturing the various reduplication phenomena exhibited by the two classes; then present a morphological analyzer of the reduplicated adjectives and adverbs. It has been implemented using XFST and LEXC with the application of compile-replace algorithm to the morphotactics description of the language, which includes finite-state operations other than concatenation, to capture reduplication phenomena.
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Ksh. Krishna B Singha, Kh. Dhiren Singha, Bipul Syam Purkaystha, "A Morphological Analyzer for Reduplicated Manipuri Adjectives and Adverbs: Applying Compile-Replace", International Journal of Information Technology and Computer Science(IJITCS), Vol.8, No.2, pp.32-40, 2016. DOI:10.5815/ijitcs.2016.02.04
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