Northern Sámi and Norwegian/smemorf

Documentation and TODO's for apertium-sme-nob's sme morphological analyser from Giellatekno.

Description

The sme morphological analyser is a trimmed and tag-changed version of the one in Giellatekno.

Trimming

Trimming happens using the same HFST method as in the Turkic pairs etc. Compounds are not handled correctly by this method.

Tagset changes

The tagset in apertium-sme-nob is closer to Apertium's tagset, thus a bit different from the one in Giellatekno.

• We remove Usage tags (+Use/Sub, etc), see the set Useless
• We remove any derivational analyses that aren't yet handled by transfer/bidix
  • More on derivations in sme-nob
• We remove the - from split compound lemmas so that they may be looked up in bidix.
• We remove the #-mark between those compounds that are lexicalised/non-dynamic (this should not be necessary any longer?)
• We also ensure the +G3 tag occurs after the +N tag, a common upstream bug in the lexc files
• We change the format of tags, so +N becomes <N>, +Der/1 becomes <Der_1>, etc.

TODO

Misc

• add entries from bidix that are missing from the analyser
• regex for URL's (don't want telefonkatalogen.no => *telefonkatalogen.nå)
• regex for acronyms like "GsoC:as" (tokenisation dependent...)
• 8632: SUBSTITUTE:TV_IV (V TV) (V IV) FAUXV (0 ("lávet")); -- this should be analysed as both, and disambiguated

Typos

I've seen "odda" many places ("ođđa"), can we just add these to the analyser? (Would be cool to have charlifter/Diacritic Restoration, but until then…)

• a list of high-frequency typos where the correction has an analysis

Dashes

lexc handles dashes by adding them literally (like a lemma), doing that in with a bidix pardef would be very messy (also, doesn't it give issues with lemma-matching in CG?).

Multiwords

Add simple multiwords and fixed expressions to the analyser.

• dasa lassin => i tillegg (til det)
• dán áigge => for tiden
• mun ieš => meg selv
• bures boahtin => velkommen
• Buorre beaivi => God dag
• leat guollebivddus => å fiske
• maid ban dainna => hva i all verden
• jagis jahkái => fra år til år
• oaidnaleapmái => 'see you'
• ovdamearkka => for eksempel
• Mo manná? => Hvordan går det?
• ja nu ain => og så videre

(Some of these MWE's might be very Apertium-specific, but in that case we just keep our own file and append the entries with update-lexc.sh.)

Also, oktavuohta.N.Sg.Loc turns into an mwe preposition in nob:

• oktavuođas => i forbindelse med

it'd be a lot simpler for transfer to just analyse such a fixed expression as oktavuođas.Po in the first place.