TY - GEN
T1 - A morphological analyzer for St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik
AU - Chen, Emily
AU - Schwartz, Lane
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik is an endangered language, indigenous to St. Lawrence Island in Alaska and the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia, that exhibits pervasive agglutinative and polysynthetic properties. This paper discusses an implementation of a finite-state morphological analyzer for Yupik that was developed in accordance with the grammatical standards and phenomena documented in Jacobson's 2001 reference grammar for Yupik. The analyzer was written in foma, an open source framework for constructing finite-state grammars of morphology. The approach presented here cyclically interweaves morphology and phonology to account for the language's intricate morphophonological system, an approach that may be applicable to typologically similar languages. The morphological analyzer has been designed to serve as foundational resource that will eventually underpin a suite of computational tools for Yupik to assist in the process of linguistic documentation and revitalization.
AB - St. Lawrence Island / Central Siberian Yupik is an endangered language, indigenous to St. Lawrence Island in Alaska and the Chukotka Peninsula of Russia, that exhibits pervasive agglutinative and polysynthetic properties. This paper discusses an implementation of a finite-state morphological analyzer for Yupik that was developed in accordance with the grammatical standards and phenomena documented in Jacobson's 2001 reference grammar for Yupik. The analyzer was written in foma, an open source framework for constructing finite-state grammars of morphology. The approach presented here cyclically interweaves morphology and phonology to account for the language's intricate morphophonological system, an approach that may be applicable to typologically similar languages. The morphological analyzer has been designed to serve as foundational resource that will eventually underpin a suite of computational tools for Yupik to assist in the process of linguistic documentation and revitalization.
KW - Computational morphology
KW - Finite-state grammar
KW - Morphological analyzer
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85059880053
T3 - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
SP - 2623
EP - 2630
BT - LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
A2 - Isahara, Hitoshi
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
A2 - Cieri, Christopher
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Hasida, Koiti
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Moreno, Asuncion
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Tokunaga, Takenobu
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Y2 - 7 May 2018 through 12 May 2018
ER -