Publication
Feature-Based Allomorphy
Hans-Ulrich Krieger; Hannes Pirker; John Nerbonne
In: 31st Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL '93). Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL-93), June 22-26, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA, Pages 140-147, ACL, 1993.
Abstract
Morphotactics and allomorphy are usually modeled in different components, leading to interface problems. To describe both uniformly, we define finite automata (FA) for allomorphy in the same feature description language used for morphotactics. Nonphonologically conditioned allomorphy is problematic in FA models but submits readily to treatment in a uniform formalism.