Publikation: ThamizhiMorph : A morphological parser for the Tamil language
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This paper presents an open source and extendable Morphological Analyser cum Generator (MAG) for Tamil named ThamizhiMorph. Tamil is a low-resource language in terms of NLP processing tools and applications. In addition, most of the available tools are neither open nor extendable. A morphological analyser is a key resource for the storage and retrieval of morphophonological and morphosyntactic information, especially for morphologically rich languages, and is also useful for developing applications within Machine Translation. This paper describes how ThamizhiMorph is designed using a Finite-State Transducer (FST) and implemented using Foma. We discuss our design decisions based on the peculiarities of Tamil and its nominal and verbal paradigms. We specify a high-level meta-language to efficiently characterise the language’s inflectional morphology. We evaluate ThamizhiMorph using text from a Tamil textbook and the Tamil Universal Dependency treebank version 2.5. The evaluation and error analysis attest a very high performance level, with the identified errors being mostly due to out-of-vocabulary items, which are easily fixable. In order to foster further development, we have made our scripts, the FST models, lexicons, Meta-Morphological rules, lists of generated verbs and nouns, and test data sets freely available for others to use and extend upon.
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SARVESWARAN, Kengatharaiyer, Gihan DIAS, Miriam BUTT, 2021. ThamizhiMorph : A morphological parser for the Tamil language. In: Machine Translation. Springer. 2021, 35(1), pp. 37-70. ISSN 0922-6567. eISSN 1573-0573. Available under: doi: 10.1007/s10590-021-09261-5BibTex
@article{Sarveswaran2021-04-23Thami-53771, year={2021}, doi={10.1007/s10590-021-09261-5}, title={ThamizhiMorph : A morphological parser for the Tamil language}, number={1}, volume={35}, issn={0922-6567}, journal={Machine Translation}, pages={37--70}, author={Sarveswaran, Kengatharaiyer and Dias, Gihan and Butt, Miriam} }
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