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Rapid Development of Morphological Descriptions for Full Language Processing Systems
I describe a compiler and development environment for feature-augmented
two-level morphology rules integrated into a full NLP system. The compiler is
optimized for a class of languages including many or most European ones, and
for rapid development and debugging of descriptions of new languages. The key
design decision is to compose morphophonological and morphosyntactic
information, but not the lexicon, when compiling the description. This results
in typical compilation times of about a minute, and has allowed a reasonably
full, feature-based description of French inflectional morphology to be
developed in about a month by a linguist new to the system.Comment: 8 pages, LaTeX (2.09 preferred); eaclap.sty; Procs of Euro ACL-9