Morphological analysis interface for word lookup

[eric-laporte]

The problem

Word lookup is currently accessible through the DELA > Lookup menu, and it works for .bin dictionaries. In languages with less graphical delimitation of words, like agglutinative languages and Arabic, word lookup can involve morphological analysis (as in Maxwell & Poser, 2004). For morphological analysis, Unitex uses morphological dictionary-graphs, which are not in the .bin format. Unitex performs morphological analysis of text, but not of an isolated word.

My suggestion

The DELA > Lookup menu could be extended to lookup in morphological dictionary-graphs. Such lookup would process a text file containing only the word that the user wants to look up (preprocessing, construction of the FST-Text). The output of the lookup would be a graph.