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Basque is a morphologically rich language, of which several finite-state morphological descriptions have been constructed, primarily using the Xerox/PARC finite-state tools. In this paper we describe the process of porting a previous description of Basque morphology to foma, an open-source finite-state toolkit compatible with Xerox tools, provide a comparison of the two tools, and contrast the development of a two-level grammar with parallel alternation rules and a sequential grammar developed by composing individual replacement rules.
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Alegria, I., Etxeberria, I., Hulden, M., Maritxalar, M. (2010). Porting Basque Morphological Grammars to foma, an Open-Source Tool. 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_11
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