The need for a bootstrapping approach to the morphological decomposition of words in agglutinative languages such as isiZulu is motivated, and the complexities of such an approach are described. The authors then introduce a generic framework which can be employed for this task, and show a number of simple examples of its use for the decomposition of words in isiZulu. Initial thoughts on the process of rule induction are discussed.
Reference:
Joubert, LJ, Davel, MH, Barnard, E et al. A framework for bootstrapping morphological decomposition. 15th Annual Symposium of the Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa, Grabouw, South Africa, 25 to 26 November 2004
Joubert, L., Davel, M., Barnard, E., & Zimu, V. (2004). A framework for bootstrapping morphological decomposition. PRASA. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5572
Joubert, LJ, MH Davel, E Barnard, and V Zimu. "A framework for bootstrapping morphological decomposition." (2004): http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5572
Joubert L, Davel M, Barnard E, Zimu V, A framework for bootstrapping morphological decomposition; PRASA; 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10204/5572 .
