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arXiv 2011.14489cs.CL
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Modelling Verbal Morphology in Nen

The Australian National University (ANU)(澳大利亚国立大学);The University of Melbourne(墨尔本大学);ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language (CoEDL)(ARC语言动态卓越中心)

Saliha Muradoğlu, Nicholas Evans, Ekaterina Vylomova

英文摘要:

Nen verbal morphology is remarkably complex; a transitive verb can take up to 1,740 unique forms. The combined effect of having a large combinatoric space and a low-resource setting amplifies the need for NLP tools. Nen morphology utilises distributed exponence - a non-trivial means of mapping form to meaning. In this paper, we attempt to model Nen verbal morphology using state-of-the-art machine learning models for morphological reinflection. We explore and categorise the types of errors these systems generate. Our results show sensitivity to training data composition; different distributions of verb type yield different accuracies (patterning with E-complexity). We also demonstrate the types of patterns that can be inferred from the training data through the case study of syncretism.

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