Abstract Prior studies in multilingual language modeling (e.g., Cotterell et al., 2018; Mielke 2019) disagree on whether or not inflectional morphology makes languages harder to model. We attempt resolve the disagreement and extend those studies. compile a larger corpus of 145 Bible translations 92 number typological features.1 fill missing data for several consider corpus-based measures morpho...

Language modeling for large-vocabulary conversational Arabic speech recognition is faced with the problem of the complex morphology of Arabic, which increases the perplexity and out-of-vocabulary rate. This problem is compounded by the enormous dialectal variability and differences between spoken and written language. In this paper we investigate improvements in Arabic language modeling by deve...

We will present Functional Morphology [5], abbreviated FM, which is a tool that implements a methodology for constructing natural language morphologies in the functional language Haskell [8]. FM has its own runtime system that supports morphological analysis and synthesis. Moreover, a morphology implemented in FM can be compiled to many other source formats. FM adopts a word-and-paradigm view o...

this empirical study deals with language contact phenomena in sistan. code-copying is viewed as a strategy of linguistic behavior when a dominated language acquires new elements in lexicon, phonology, morphology, syntax, pragmatic organization, etc., which can be interpreted as copies of a dominating language. in this framework persian is regarded as the model code which provides elements for b...

one of the most important concerns of persian language and literature academy (farhangestaan) has been creating words in the specialized and general areas in different periods. the third academy has started word creation with the general area. since word making belongs to the area of morphology, it should follow its special principles. the writer of this paper presents the principles of morphol...