VenPro: A Morphological Analyzer for Venetan

This document reports the process of extending MorphoPro for Venetan, a lesser-used language spoken in the Nort-Eastern part of Italy. MorphoPro is the morphological component of TextPro, a suite of tools oriented towards a number of NLP tasks. In order to extend this component to Venetan, we developed a declarative representation of the morphological knowledge necessary to analyze and synthesize Venetan words. This task was challenging for several reasons, which are common to a number of lesser-used languages: although Venetan is widely used as an oral language in everyday life, its written usage is very limited; efforts for defining a standard orthography and grammar are very recent and not well established; despite recent attempts to propose a unified orthography, no Venetan standard is widely used. Besides, there are different geographical varieties and it is strongly influenced by Italian.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Sara Tonelli, Emanuele Pianta, Rodolfo Delmonte, Michele Brunelli
• Keywords: Education, Lesser-used Languages, LREC 2010, Morphological Component, Morphological Knowledge