A Word-level Morphosyntactic Analyzer for Basque
Itziar Aduriz, Eneko Agirre, Izaskun Aldezabal, Xabier Arregi, José María Arriola Egurrola, Xabier Artola Zubillaga, Koldo Gojenola, A. Maritxalar, Kepa Sarasola, Miriam Urkia · 2000
This work presents the development and implementation of a full morphological analyzer for Basque, an agglutinative language.Several problems (phrase structure inside word-forms, noun ellipsis, multiplicity of values for the same feature and the use of complex linguistic representations) have forced us to go beyond the morphological segmentation of words, and to include an extra module that performs a full morphosyntactic parsing of each word-form.A unification-based word-level grammar has been defined for that purpose.The system has been integrated into a general environment for the automatic processing of corpora, using TEI-conformant SGML feature structures.