Show simple item record

dc.contributor.authorBills, Aric R.
dc.date.accessioned2020-10-15T23:40:34Z
dc.date.available2020-10-15T23:40:34Z
dc.date.issued2011-05
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11122/11354
dc.descriptionThesis (M.A.) University of Alaska Fairbanks, 2011en_US
dc.description.abstractThis 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.sponsorshipNational Science Foundation (Award 0534217)en_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectInupiaq dialecten_US
dc.subjectlexicologyen_US
dc.subjecttranscriptionen_US
dc.subjectAlaskaen_US
dc.subjectNorth Slopeen_US
dc.subjectcomputational linguisticsen_US
dc.subjectdata processingen_US
dc.titleA lexical transducer for North Slope Iñupiaqen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.degreemaen_US
dc.identifier.departmentLinguistics Programen_US
dc.contributor.chairTuttle, Siri
dc.contributor.committeeLevin, Lori
dc.contributor.committeeBerge, Anna
dc.contributor.committeeKaplan, Lawrence
refterms.dateFOA2020-10-15T23:40:35Z


Files in this item

Thumbnail
Name:
Bills_A_2011.pdf
Size:
13.12Mb
Format:
PDF

This item appears in the following Collection(s)

Show simple item record