The Japanese lexical transducer based on stem-suffix style forms

This paper depicts an optimal method to construct a lexical transducer for Japanese by describing the stems and suuxes in diierent lexicons separately and adding an extra level of the transducers for transducing between canonical citation forms and stem-suux style forms. This method makes it possible to reduce the complexity of rule descriptions and the computational load of intersecting compared with other methods. We made the full-size lexical transducer for Japanese. The number of states is about 60 thousand and the number of arcs is about 300 thousands. The physical size is from 800KB to 1.5MB depending on compaction methods.