Unsupervised Morphological Segmentation for Low-Resource Polysynthetic Languages

WS 2019  ·  Esk, Ramy er, Judith Klavans, Smar Muresan, a ·

Polysynthetic languages pose a challenge for morphological analysis due to the root-morpheme complexity and to the word class {``}squish{''}. In addition, many of these polysynthetic languages are low-resource. We propose unsupervised approaches for morphological segmentation of low-resource polysynthetic languages based on Adaptor Grammars (AG) (Eskander et al., 2016). We experiment with four languages from the Uto-Aztecan family. Our AG-based approaches outperform other unsupervised approaches and show promise when compared to supervised methods, outperforming them on two of the four languages.

PDF Abstract
No code implementations yet. Submit your code now

Datasets


  Add Datasets introduced or used in this paper

Results from the Paper


  Submit results from this paper to get state-of-the-art GitHub badges and help the community compare results to other papers.

Methods


No methods listed for this paper. Add relevant methods here