Importing key concepts from explanatory combinatorial lexicology, we revisit the notion of grammeme and show that it is an entity of the same level of abstraction as a vocable. Grammemes are polysemic and one of their acceptations is the basic one from which the others are derived. We propose criteria to identify it, and show how it can be used to guide the grouping of grammemes into inflection...

We present experiments with part-ofspeech tagging for Bulgarian, a Slavic language with rich inflectional and derivational morphology. Unlike most previous work, which has used a small number of grammatical categories, we work with 680 morpho-syntactic tags. We combine a large morphological lexicon with prior linguistic knowledge and guided learning from a POS-annotated corpus, achieving accura...

Category of a word, as may be indicated in a lexicon, is a useful piece of information for most linguistic exercises. Hence determination of categories of words in a natural language is an important task. There has been much work in Part-of-Speech tagging of words in texts, where the tagset is usually pre-determined and provided to the system. In this work we attempt to determine the categories...

This paper describes a procedure aimed at automatic extraction of certain noun and verb categories from Polish texts. The general goal is to construct a lexical database that should be incorporated into a system for machine translation and multilingual generation of summaries. High quality processing of inflectional languages like Polish requires quite elaborated lexical entries, it is therefor...

We present a complete formalization of Persian inflectional morphology using a unification-based framework. The morphological analyzer was developed for use in a Persian-English machine translation system; it computes the part of speech categories and returns all syntactically relevant inflectional features for a word. The morphological analyses are represented as feature structures, which can ...

It is a general assumption in linguistic theory that the categories of tense, aspect and mood are inflectional categories of verbal classes only.1 However, there are a number of languages around the world in which nominals and other NP constituents are also inflected for tense, aspect and mood (henceforth TAM). That nominals may be inflected for TAM has been noted in the grammatical description...