CATMORF: Multi two-level steps for Catalan morphology

In computational morphology the two-level paradigm is regarded as a standard in this paper we describe CATMORF, the rst wide-coverage multi two-level steps morphological analyzer for Catalan which has been implemented in SEGMORF - a twolevel morphological formalism. We discuss the bene ts and drawbacks of the application of the two-level paradigm to Catalan morphology and compare our results to those obtained for other Romance languages, like Spanish. We therefore put forward a slightly di erent two-level framework - the Multi two-level steps framework - for dealing with Catalan and Spanish morphology. The paper also illustrates the acquistion of lexical entries for the analyzer's lexicon out of a machine readable dictionary (MRD). What made this task not so trivial is also reported.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1997
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Toni Badia, Angels Egea, Antoni Tuells
• Keywords: ANLP 1997, Erent Two-level Framework, Multi Two-level Steps, Two-level Paradigm