BAD: An Assistant tool for making verses in Basque

Finite-State Technology in a Verse-Making Tool

This paper presents a set of tools designed to assist traditional Basque verse writers during the composition process. In this article we are going to focus on the parts that have been created using finite-state technology: this includes tools such as syllable counters, rhyme checkers and a rhyme search utility. 1 The BAD tool and the Basque singing tradition The BAD tool is an assistant tool f...

Using foma for language-based games

This paper describes two examples of how finite-state technology (FST) commonly used in computational morphology can help implement language-based games. The tool we have used is foma an open-source toolkit, similar to previous Xerox/PARC finite-state tools. FST tools have been widely used to describe the morphology of languages and to implement spelling checkers and correctors, especially for ...

An Assistant Tool for Verse-Making in Basque Based on Two-Level Morphology

Towards Basque Oral Poetry Analysis: A Machine Learning Approach

This work aims to study the narrative structure of Basque greeting verses from a text classification approach. We propose a set of thematic categories for the correct classification of verses, and then, use those categories to analyse the verses based on Machine Learning techniques. Classification methods such as Naive Bayes, kNN, Support Vector Machines and Decision Tree Learner have been sele...

Using Finite State Technology in Natural Language Processing of Basque

This paper describes the components used in the design and implementation of NLP tools for Basque. These components are based on finite state technology and are devoted to the morphological analysis of Basque, an agglutinative pre-Indo-European language. We think that our design can be interesting for the treatment of other languages. The main components developed are a general and robust morph...