Finite State Morphology Tool for Latvian
Daiga Deksne · 2013
The existing Latvian morphological analyzer was developed more than ten years ago. Its main weaknesses are: low processing speed when processing a large text corpus, complexity of adding new entries to the lexical data base, and limitations for usage on different operational platforms. This paper describes the creation of a new Latvian morphology tool. The tool has the capability to return lemma and morphological analysis for a given word form; it can generate the required word form if lemma and form description is given; it can also generate all possible word forms for a given lemma. As Finite state transducer (FST) technology is used for the morphology tool, it is easy to extend the lexicon, the tool can be reused on different platforms and it has good performance indicators.