Generating inflection variants of multi-word terms for French and German
Simon Clematide, Roth, L · Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich) · 2011
We describe a free Web-based service for the inflection of single words and multi-word terms for French and German. Its primary purpose is to provide glossary authors (instructors or students) of an open electronic learning management system with a practical way to add inflected variants for their glossary entries. The necessary morpho-syntactic processing for analysis and generation is implemented by finite-state transducers and a unification-based grammar framework in a declarative and principled way. The techniques required for German and French terms cover two typological different types of term creation and both can be easily transferred to other languages.