A lexical transducer for North Slope Iñupiaq
dc.contributor.author | Bills, Aric R. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-10-15T23:40:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-10-15T23:40:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2011-05 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11122/11354 | |
dc.description | Thesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011 | en_US |
dc.description.abstract | This thesis describes the creation and evaluation of software designed to analyze and generate North Slope Iñupiaq words. Given a complete lñupiaq word as input, it attempts to identify the word's stem and suffixes, including the grammatical category and any inflectional information contained in the word. Given a stem and list of suffixes as input, it attempts to produce the corresponding Iñupiaq word, applying phonological processes as necessary. Innovations in the implementation of this software include Iñupiaq-specific formats for specifying lexical data, including a table-based format for specifying inflectional suffixes in paradigms; a treatment of phonologically-conditioned irregular allomorphy which leverages the pattern-recognition capabilities of the xfst programming language; and an idiom for composing morphographemic rules together in xfst which captures the state of the software each time a new rule is added, maximizing feedback during software compilation and facilitating troubleshooting. In testing, the software recognized 81.2% of all word tokens (78.3% of unique word types) and guessed at the morphology of an additional 16.8% of tokens (19.4% of types). Analyses of recognized words were largely accurate; a heuristic for identifying accurate parses is proposed. Most guesses were at least partly inaccurate. Improvements and applications are proposed. | en_US |
dc.description.sponsorship | National Science Foundation (Award 0534217) | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en_US | en_US |
dc.subject | Inupiaq dialect | en_US |
dc.subject | lexicology | en_US |
dc.subject | transcription | en_US |
dc.subject | Alaska | en_US |
dc.subject | North Slope | en_US |
dc.subject | computational linguistics | en_US |
dc.subject | data processing | en_US |
dc.title | A lexical transducer for North Slope Iñupiaq | en_US |
dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
dc.type.degree | ma | en_US |
dc.identifier.department | Linguistics Program | en_US |
dc.contributor.chair | Tuttle, Siri | |
dc.contributor.committee | Levin, Lori | |
dc.contributor.committee | Berge, Anna | |
dc.contributor.committee | Kaplan, Lawrence | |
refterms.dateFOA | 2020-10-15T23:40:35Z |