North Saami Verb Profiling
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North Saami Verb Profiling Jussi Ylikoski, Laura A. Janda, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Hanne Eckhoff
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North Saami Verb Profiling. Jussi Ylikoski , Laura A. Janda, Ciprian Gerstenberger , Hanne Eckhoff. Size and Source of database. Note: disambiguation is a major problem a given form can easily have over 10 interpretations About 80,000 words , comprised of : - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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North Saami Verb Profiling
Jussi Ylikoski, Laura A. Janda, Ciprian Gerstenberger, Hanne Eckhoff
Size and Source of database
• Note: disambiguation is a major problem– a given form can easily have over 10
interpretations• About 80,000 words, comprised of:
– North Saami “Gold” corpus, disambiguated by hand, about 30,000 words
– Johan Turi’s (1910) Muitalus sámiid birra (An account of the Saami). Automatically disambiguated, plus correction of verb forms, about 50,000 words
Protocol for North Saami
Derived verbs: Treat all derived verbs as separate lexemes. This includes verbs derived in -goahtit “start X-ing” and also passive verbs (roughly parallel to Russian -ся verbs). Auxiliary verbs: Ignore/remove all forms of “ii” (negation verb) as aux.Ignore/remove all forms of “leat” as aux.Include all other auxiliary verbs as verbs on equal footing with main verbs. [Assumption: We have the following relevant types of constructions:1. “ii” aux + negation forms of main verbs2. “leat” aux + non-finite forms of main verbs3. other aux + non-finite forms of main verbsFor 1. and 2. we will take only the forms of the main verbs, but for 3. we will take both the aux and the main verb.] Threshold:Retain/focus on only lemmas that have 20+ forms in the combined corpus.
Form of data
COLUMN 1: PASSPORTGold vs. Turi
COLUMN 2: FORM_ID Unique line # and word ID
COLUMN 3: FORMThe actual form of the verb found (boahtit, boahtime, gorrojuvvon, jáhkkigoahtit)
COLUMN 3: LEMMA
The infinitive form of the verb (boahtit, gorrojuvvot, jáhkkigoahtit) COLUMN 5: ANALYSIS
Full parse of form COLUMN 5: SUBPARADIGM
Ind.Prs, Ind.Prt, Imprt, Inf, PrfPrc, etc. COLUMN 6: CONTEXT
The entire sentence that the example form is found in.
Example from dataset
PASSPORT;FORM_ID;FORM;LEMMA;ANALYSIS;SUBPARADIGM;CONTEXT
Gold;g_3_1;Sávan;sávvat;V.TV.Ind.Prs.Sg1;Ind.Prs;"Sávan didjiide lihku , vástidii Evo Morales . "
Translation: I wish you luck, answered Evo Morales.
Results
• Almost 20,000 verb forms• About 120 verbs cross the threshold (>20
forms)– Partially annnotated for
–auxiliary verbs–semantic classes following Russian
National Corpus
