Resource-Light Acquisition of Inflectional Paradigms

This paper presents a resource-light acquisition of morphological paradigms and lexicon for fusional lan- guages. It builds upon Paramor (10), an unsupervised sys- tem, by extending it: (1) to accept a small seed of man- ually provided word inflections with marked morpheme boundary; (2) to handle basic allomorphic changes ac- quiring the rules from the seed and/or from previously acquired paradigms. The algorithm has been tested on Czech and Slovene tagged corpora and has shown in- creased F-measure in comparison with the Paramor base- line.