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In the paper, application of the Finite State Tools to one of the Southern Caucasian languages, Georgian, is discussed. In Georgian, as in many non-Indo-European agglutinative languages, concatenative morphotactics is impressively productive due to its rich morphology. The presented Georgian Language Morphological Transducer is capable to parse all theoretically possible forms for the lemmata of Georgian nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, numerals, functional words and for most of the lemmata from 72 verb sets.
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Kapanadze, O. (2010). Describing Georgian Morphology with a Finite-State System. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Kornai, A., Sakarovitch, J., Watson, B. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6062. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14684-8_12
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