Ok, what about SFST?, do you know if it is better, in a linguistically
way, than lttolbok  with the alignments  to the corresponding
morphemes?

Sofia

2011/9/17 Jimmy O'Regan <[email protected]>:
> On 17 September 2011 17:26, Sofia Flores <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I want to build a morphological parser for  bribri (Amerindian
>> language from Costa Rica). I have tried lttoolbox, but my question is
>> if is possible to  build aligned morphological dictionaries,
>> so the correspondence between the surface form and the lexical form of
>> a word is aligned at the character level, ej:
>>
>> (h,h) (o,o) (u,u) (s,s) (e,e) (s,<n>), (θ,<pl>)
>>
>> instead of
>>
>> houses, house<n><pl>
>
> Sure:
>
> <e>
>  <p><l>h</l><r>h</r></p>
>  <p><l>o</l><r>o</r></p>
>  <p><l>u</l><r>u</r></p>
>  <p><l>s</l><r>s</r></p>
>  <p><l>e</l><r>e</r></p>
>  <p><l></l><r><s n="n"/></r></p>
>  <p><l>s</l><r><s n="pl"/></r></p>
> </e>
>
> ...but that's extremely inefficient, and the task is performed by
> lttoolbox internally, with the added bonus that it finds the optimal
> alignment itself. The <i> element effectively says 'each contained
> character maps to itself', which is usually what you want.
>
> --
> <Sefam> Are any of the mentors around?
> <jimregan> yes, they're the ones trolling you
>
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