Design, implementation and evaluation of an inflectional morphology finite-state transducer for Irish

Machine Translation

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 173-193

  Dhonnchadha, Elaine Uí ^a   Pháidín, Caoilfhionn Nic ^b   Van Genabith, Josef ^b  

^a Institiuid Teangeolaiochta Eureann   (Ireland)

^b DUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Celtic languages; Computational morphology; Finite state; Irish; Lesser used languages; Minority languages

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; FINITE AUTOMATA; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MACHINE DESIGN; MORPHOLOGY; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

CELTIC LANGUAGES; COMPUTATIONAL MORPHOLOGY; FINITE-STATE TRANSDUCERS; LESSER-USED LANGUAGES; MINORITY LANGUAGES;

TRANSDUCERS;

EID: 11244277117     PISSN: 09226567     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10590-004-2480-9     Document Type: Review

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