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WCCL: A Morpho-syntactic Feature Toolkit

  • Adam Radziszewski
  • Adam Wardyński
  • Tomasz Śniatowski
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 6836)

Abstract

The paper presents WCCL, a new formalism and toolkit for constructing morpho-syntactic features, a crucial task for many natural language processing algorithms. One existing solution, JOSKIPI, is analysed from two perspectives: features of the formalism as well as software engineering-related issues. Then we propose its successor. A short case study follows, exemplifying the improvement enabled by using rich features expressed with WCCL. The formalism is targeted at Polish, although it seems well suited for any inflectional language.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Adam Radziszewski
    • 1
  • Adam Wardyński
    • 1
  • Tomasz Śniatowski
    • 1
  1. 1.Institute of InformaticsWrocław University of TechnologyWrocławPoland

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