A Procedure for Word Derivational Processes Concerning Lexicon Extension in Highly Inflected Languages

Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2002)

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to describe an efficient tool (I PAR) for a supervised and semi-automatic extension of a lexicon or morphological database and its easy updating. We will present the underlying algorithms and their implementation that are general enough to capture the main word-forming processes (both inflectional and derivational). They are designed for languages with a rich inflectional morphology, such as Slavonic languages, particularly Czech. The implementation is partly based on the ideas presented in the earlier paper by Kl´ýmov and Pala (2000)