A project for Latin Lexicography: 2. A Latin morphological analyzer

Abstract

This article describes a second aspect of the Project for Latin Lexicography (see previous article). We here concentrate on two aspects of the project. First, we describe the morphological analyzer, which comprises a base dictionary, a table of suffixes, a table of endings and a table of postfixes. Second, we describe the lemmatization module, which operates by reference to a series of grammatical codes or information given for the base, and reference codes.

Giuseppe Cappelli is a program analyst working at the Institute for Computational Linguistics of the National Research Council of Pisa. He has written the software for the morphosyntactic analyzer of the Spanish language. He has also written the software for the morphological analyser of the Latin language in collaboration with the Classics Department of Turin University. At present, Cappelli is involved in the study of child language. His publications include (with M.N. Catarsi, A. Saba and D. Ratti) “A Morphosyntactic analyser for Spanish”, Computers in Literary and Linguistic Research, Pisa: Giardini Editori, 1982; and (with A. Bozzi) “A Latin Morphological Analyser,” in Data Base Oriented Source Editions, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1988.