Persian Computational Morphology:
A Unification-Based Approach
Karine Megerdoomian
Abstract
This report provides a complete descriptive analysis of Persian
inflectional morphology from a computational perspective. The parts of
speech and the morphemes that appear on them as well as their
corresponding morphotactics are presented in detail. The verbal
paradigm is also described in this document. Since the morphological
analyzer designed for this project uses a unification-based grammar
with typed feature structures, the morphological information has been
defined in terms of features and values. The report describes the
current version of the morphological analyzer used in the Shiraz
project and discusses any morphological elements that have not been
included in this version, mostly due to the colloquial usage of these
morphemes. Sample rules of Samba, the grammar specifying the
morphological analyzer, as well as the feature specification for the
Persian type definitions module are also described.
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