Syncretism and How to Deal with it in a Morphological Analyzer: a German Example
Katina Bontcheva · 2013
Syncretism is the area of the morphologysyntax interface where morphology fails the syntax. Inadequate treatment in the design of a morphological analyzer can lead to unbalanced performance of the analyzer either at generation, or at analysis. Furthermore, adequate and consistent treatment of syncretism is needed if the analyzer is to be used for language modeling, especially modeling of the syncretism. In this paper I will show that it is possible to create a morphological analyzer that can be tailored to various intended uses with minimal effort. 1