JKimmo: A Multilingual Computational Morphology Frame- work for PC-KIMMO

Morphological analysis is of fundamental interest in computational linguistics and language processing. While there are established morphological analyzers for mostly Western and a few other languages using localized interfaces, the same cannot be said for Indic and other less-studied languages for which language processing is just beginning. There are three primary obstacles to computational morphological analysis of these less-studied languages: the generative rules that define the language morphology, the morphological processor, and the computational interface that a linguist can use to experiment with the generative rules. In this paper, we present JKimmo, a multilingual morphological open-source framework that uses the PCKIMMO two-level morphological processor and provides a localized interface for Bangla morphological analysis. We then apply Jkimmo to Bangla computational morphology, demonstrating both its recognition and generation capabilities. Jkimmo’s internationalization (i18n) framework allows easy localization in other languages as well, using a property file for the interface definitions and a transliteration scheme for the analysis.