Non-concatinative Finite-State Morphotactics (Saba Amsalu & Girma A. Demeke)

In this paper we have described non-concatenative finite-state morphotactics of Amharic simple verbs. A morphological analyzer transducer) that analyses simple Amharic verbal stems into their roots and feature tags is developed. The transducer also functions as a morphological synthesizer. It has an interface that works for Amharic text written in Unicode encoded Fidel script. We used Xerox Finite-State Tool (XFST) and Lexicon Compiler (LEXC) to construct the finite-state lexical transducer.

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