Abstract
The Universal Morphology (UniMorph) project is a collaborative effort providing broad-coverage instantiated normalized morphological inflection tables for hundreds of diverse world languages. The project comprises two major thrusts: a language-independent feature schema for rich morphological annotation and a type-level resource of annotated data in diverse languages realizing that schema. This paper presents the expansions and improvements made on several fronts over the last couple of years (since McCarthy et al. (2020)). Collaborative efforts by numerous linguists have added 67 new languages, including 30 endangered languages. We have implemented several improvements to the extraction pipeline to tackle some issues, e.g. missing gender and macron information. We have also amended the schema to use a hierarchical structure that is needed for morphological phenomena like multiple-argument agreement and case stacking, while adding some missing morphological features to make the schema more inclusive. In light of the last UniMorph release, we also augmented the database with morpheme segmentation for 16 languages. Lastly, this new release makes a push towards inclusion of derivational morphology in UniMorph by enriching the data and annotation schema with instances representing derivational processes from MorphyNet.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 |
Editors | Nicoletta Calzolari, Frederic Bechet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis |
Publisher | European Language Resources Association (ELRA) |
Pages | 840-855 |
Number of pages | 16 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9791095546726 |
State | Published - 2022 |
Externally published | Yes |
Event | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 - Marseille, France Duration: 20 Jun 2022 → 25 Jun 2022 |
Publication series
Name | 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 |
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Conference
Conference | 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022 |
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Country/Territory | France |
City | Marseille |
Period | 20/06/22 → 25/06/22 |
Bibliographical note
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