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Evaluating a morphological analyser of inuktitut
J Nicholson, T Cohn, T Baldwin
Naacl Hlt 2012 2012 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics Human Language Technologies Proceedings of the Conference | Published : 2012
Abstract
We evaluate the performance of an morphological analyser for Inuktitut across a mediumsized corpus, where it produces a useful analysis for two out of every three types. We then compare its segmentation to that of simpler approaches to morphology, and use these as a pre-processing step to a word alignment task. Our observations show that the richer approaches provide little as compared to simply finding the head, which is more in line with the particularities of the task.