Electronic Dictionaries and Transducers for Automatic Processing of the Albanian Language

Odile Piton (1) , Klara Lagji (2) , Remzi Pernaska (3)

1 Marin Mersenne - Pour les Mathématiques, l'Informatique et l'Interdisciplinarité
2 Laboratoire de Tirana
3 FoReLL [Poitiers] - Formes et représentations en linguistique et littérature [EA 3816]

We intend on developing electronic dictionaries and Finite State Transducers for the automatic processing of the Albanian Language. We describe some peculiarities of this language and we explain how FST and generally speaking NooJ's graphs enable to treat them. We point out agglutinated words, mixed words or ‘XY' words that are not (or cannot be) listed into dictionaries and we use FST for their dynamic treatment. We take into consideration the problem of unknown words in a lately reformed language and the evolving of features in the dictionaries.

Keywords: Morphological Analysis; Electronic Dictionary; Finite State Transducer; Albanian Language; Automatic Processing of Open Lists of Words.; Automatic Processing of Open Lists of Words

Domains: Linguistics; Computation and Language [cs.CL]; Document and Text Processing

Odile Piton, Klara Lagji, Remzi Pernaska. Electronic Dictionaries and Transducers for Automatic Processing of the Albanian Language. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2007, Natural Language Processing and Information Systems, 12th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2007, Paris, (4592), pp.407-413. ⟨10.1007/978-3-540-73351-5_38⟩. ⟨hal-00452482⟩