We discuss the notion of an inflection class system, a traditional ingredient of the description of inflection systems of nontrivial complexity. We distinguish systems of microclasses, which partition a set of lexemes in classes with identical behavior, and systems of macroclasses, which group lexemes that are similar enough in a few larger classes. On the basis of the intuition that macroclasses should contribute to a concise description of the system, we propose one algorithmic method for inferring macroclasses from raw inflectional paradigms, based on minimisation of the description length of the system under a given strategy of identifying morphological alternations in paradigms. We then exhibit classifications produced by our implementation on French and European Portuguese conjugation data and argue that they constitute an appropriate systematisation of traditional classifications. To arrive at such a convincing systematisation, it was crucial for us to use a local approach to inflection class similarity (based on pairwise comparisons of paradigm cells) rather than a global approach (based on the simultaneous comparison of all cells). We conclude that it is indeed possible to infer inflectional macroclasses objectively.
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We present a robust full-featured architecture to preprocess text before parsing.This architecture, alled SxPipe, converts raw moisy corpora into word lattices, one by sentence, that can be used as input by a parser. It includes sequentially named-entity recognition, tokenization and sentence boundaries detection, lexicon-aware named-entity recognition, spelling correction, and non-deterministic multi-words processing, re-accentuation and un-/re-capitalization. Though our system currently deals with the French language, almost all components are in fact language-independent, and the others can be strainghtforwardly adapted to virtually any inflectional language. The output is a sequence of word lattices, all words being present in the lexicon. It has been applied on a large scale during a French parsing evaluation campaign and during experiments of large corpora parsing, showing both good efficiency and very satisfying precision and recall.
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