2000/05/22 by Markus Walther
Computer Science · #cs.CL
published as Proc. NAACL-2000, Seattle/WA, pp.296-302 · 7 pages
arxiv created 2000/05/22 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30
Reduplication, a central instance of prosodic morphology, is particularly challenging for state-of-the-art computational morphology, since it involves copying of some part of a phonological string. In this paper I advocate a finite-state method that combines enriched lexical representations via intersection to implement the copying. The proposal includes a resource-conscious variant of automata and can benefit from the existence of lazy algorithms. Finally, the implementation of a complex case from Koasati is presented.