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We introduce the MFF algorithm for the task of verbal inflection analysis. This algorithm follows an heuristics that decide for the most frequent inflection feature bundle given the set of admissible feature bundles for a verb input form. This algorithm achieves a significantly better level of accuracy than the ones offered by current stochastic tagging technology commonly used for the same task.
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Branco, A., Nunes, F. (2012). Verb Analysis in a Highly Inflective Language with an MFF Algorithm. In: Caseli, H., Villavicencio, A., Teixeira, A., Perdigão, F. (eds) Computational Processing of the Portuguese Language. PROPOR 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 7243. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28885-2_1
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