Morphological Analysis of Gkyusing a Finite State Machine
Kamau Chege, Peter Waiganjo Wagacha, Guy De Pauw, Jayne Mutiga · 2011
In this paper we present the development of a morphological analysis system for Gky� Major morphological processes prevalent in Gkylanguage are explored. These include verb inflection, verb and noun derivation and verb reduplication. In this work, finite state transducers are used to model Gkymor- phology. Xerox finite state tools are used to build the lexical transducers for the system and to model rewrite rules prevalent in G � - ky�. The system achieves an acceptable representa- tion of Gkymorphology. It can correctly analyze Gkywords with an accuracy of 56%. As Gkyis highly inflections, ambigu- ity is a big challenge both in morphological analysis and machine translation.