Finite State Solutions For Reduplication In Kinyarwanda Language
Jackson Muhirwe, Trond Trosterud · 2008
Reduplication, the remaining problem in computational morphology is a morphological process that involves copying the base form wholly or partially. Reduplication can also be classified as either bounded or unbounded reduplication. Some solutions have been proposed for bounded reduplication. Some of the proposed solutions use ordered replace rules while others use simultaneous two-level rules. In our attempt to solve both bounded and unbounded reduplication we used a combination of two-level rules and replace rules. All our experiments were are carried out on Kinyarwanda an underresourced language with complex agglutinative morphology. 1