Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike

Bart Jongejan; Hercules Dalianis

Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike

Bart Jongejan, Hercules Dalianis

Centre for Language Technology

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Abstract

We propose a method to automatically train lemmatization rules that handle prefix, infix and suffix changes to generate the lemma from the full form of a word. We explain how the lemmatization rules are created and how the lemmatizer works. We trained this lemmatizer on Danish, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Slovene and
Swedish full form-lemma pairs respectively.
We obtained significant improvements of 24 percent for Polish, 2.3 percent for Dutch, 1.5 percent for English, 1.2 percent for German and 1.0 percent for Swedish compared to plain suffix lemmatization using a suffix-only lemmatizer.
Icelandic deteriorated with 1.9 percent. We also made an observation regarding the number of produced lemmatization rules as a function of the number of training pairs.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP
Number of pages	9
Volume	1
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics
Publication date	2009
Pages	145-153
ISBN (Print)	978-1-932432-61-9
ISBN (Electronic)	1-932432-61-2
Publication status	Published - 2009
Event	ACL-IJCNLP 2009 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: 2 Aug 2009 → 7 Aug 2009 Conference number: 47

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Conference	ACL-IJCNLP 2009
Number	47
Country/Territory	Singapore
City	Singapore
Period	02/08/2009 → 07/08/2009

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Faculty of Humanities
lemmatization morphology affix

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Jongejan, B., & Dalianis, H. (2009). Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike. In Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP (Vol. 1, pp. 145-153). Association for Computational Linguistics.

Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike. / Jongejan, Bart; Dalianis, Hercules.
Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP. Vol. 1 Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. p. 145-153.

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Jongejan, B & Dalianis, H 2009, Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike. in Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP. vol. 1, Association for Computational Linguistics, pp. 145-153, ACL-IJCNLP 2009, Singapore, Singapore, 02/08/2009.

Jongejan, Bart ; Dalianis, Hercules. / Automatic training of lemmatization rules that handle morphological changes in pre-, in- and suffixes alike. Proceedings of the Joint Conference of the 47th Annual Meeting of the ACL and the 4th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing of the AFNLP. Vol. 1 Association for Computational Linguistics, 2009. pp. 145-153

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