Meänkieli morphological transducer

Beware of remnants from the Finnish and Kven files.

Tags for POS

• +A = Adjective
• +Adv = Adverb
• +CC = Conjunction
• +CS = Subjunction
• +Interj = Interjection
• +N = Noun
• +Num = Numerals
• +Ord = Ordinals
• +Pcle = Participle?
• +Po = Postposition
• +Pr = Preposition
• +Pron = Pronomen
• +V = Verb
• +Prop = Propernoun
• +Symbol = independent symbols in the text stream, like £, €, ©

Tags for grammar

Pronoun types

• +Pers = Personal
• +Dem = Demonstrative
• +Interr = Interrogative
• +Refl = Reflexive
• +Recipr = Reciprocal
• +Rel = Relative
• +Indef = Indefinitue
• +Qu = Hmm, Question?? Interr? Check this.

Other tags

• +CLBfinal =
• +Coll =
• +MWE =
• +LEFT =
• +RIGHT +MIDDLE =
• +ABBR
• +ACR
• +Abbr
• +Arab
• +Dyn
• +Prel
• +Rom

Number

• +Sg = Singular
• +Pl = Plural

Case

• +Nom = Nominative
• +Gen = Genitive
• +Acc = Accusative, for pronouns, but is it correct?
• +Ine = Inessive
• +Ill = Illative
• +Ela = Elative
• +Ade = Adessive
• +Abe = Abessive
• +All = Allative
• +Abl = Ablative
• +Ess = Essive
• +Tra = Translaive
• +Ins = Instructive
• +Com = Comitative
• +Par = Partitive

Possessive suffixes

• +PxPl1 =
• +PxPl2 =
• +PxPl3 =
• +PxSg1 =
• +PxSg2 =
• +PxSg3 =

Comparatives

• +Comp =
• +Superl =

Finite verbs

• +Act =
• +Pass =
• +Ind =
• +Prs =
• +Prt =
• +Imprt =
• +Cond =
• +Pot = Potential

Verb person tags

• +Sg1 =
• +Sg2 =
• +Sg3 =
• +Pl1 =
• +Pl2 =
• +Pl3 =

Verb transitivity

• +TV transitive
• +IV intransitive

Infinite verbs

• +Inf = tA Infinitive
• +InfE = e Infinite
• +InfMa = mA Infinite
• +PrsPrc =
• +PrfPrc =
• +ConNeg =
• +Neg =

Punctuation

• +CLB = Clause boundary
• +PUNCT = Punctuation mark
• +HYPH = Hyphenation mark
• +Attr = Attributive form, hmm, check, for names?

Language tags

• +OLang/NOB = language code for names from common name source
• +OLang/FIN
• +OLang/SWE
• +OLang/UND

Speller tags

• +Err/Orth only in desc, not in norm.
• +Use/-Spell = Excluded in speller
• +Use/SpellNoSugg = recognized but not suggested in speller
• +Use/Circ for numerals, copied from sme
• +Use/NG do not generate
• +Use/GC
• +Use/TTS – only retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser

• +Use/-TTS – never retained in the HFST Text-To-Speech disambiguation tokeniser

• +Err/Hyph =
• +Err/SpaceCmp =
• +Err/Lex
• +Err/MissingSpace

Compounds

• +Cmp =
• +Cmp/SplitR =
• +Cmp/Hyph - on dynamic compounds that have a hyphen (in use?)
• +CmpNP/First - … only be first part in a compound or alone
• +CmpNP/None =

Derivation

• +Der/minen =
• +Der/lainen =
• +Der/A =
• +Der =
• +Der/s =
• +Der/suus =

These three tags are not added in lexc. The POS tag before derivation is converted into this tag when compiling FST for disambiguation.

• +Ex/N
• +Ex/A
• +Ex/V

Tag

• +v1
• +v2

Clitic tags

• +Clt =
• +Qst =
• +Foc/han =
• +Foc/haan =
• +Foc/ka = sjekk denne xxx
• +Foc/kas = sjekk denne xxx
• +Foc/kaan =
• +Foc/kin =
• +Foc/pa =
• +Foc/s =
• +Foc/pas =

Semantic tags

• +Sem/Ani = Animal names
• +Sem/Edu = Education institution
• +Sem/Fem = Female names
• +Sem/Mal = Male names
• +Sem/Obj = Names of objects
• +Sem/Org = Names of organisations
• +Sem/Plc = Place names
• +Sem/Sur = Surnames

Phonological symbols

• i2 = plural i of nouns (kanaloissa)
• i3 = past tense i of verbs
• i4 = i in conditional isi of most verbs (without gemination)
• i5 = superlative i of adjectives
• i6 = i:j in poika:pojan
• i7 = i in conditional of contract verbs (with gemination)
• i8 = past tense i of verbs that disappear: antaa : anto
• i9 = plural i of adjectives (kamalissa)
• n9 = nouns that keep nn (juvanne)
• p2 = always p
• t2 = always t, cf. katt2oma always tt, underlying -ts-
• t3 = t participating in gradation, but not in t:s
• t4 = t alternating with 0 in lnr+t : lnr (imarella)
• k2 = always k
• k4 = for k to j
• %^A = Vowel harmony a/ä
• %^O = Vowel harmony o/ö
• %^U = Vowel harmony u/y
• %^V = Vowel copying
• %^N = tulˆNut, kävel^N^Ut
• %^E2I = for e to i change
• %^HMETA = for h metathesis syksy - sykshyyn
• %^HMET2 = for h metathesis saunhaan - sauhnaan
• %^AO = a:o rannoissa
• %^WG = Weak grade matto - maton
• %^TES = in use?
• %^VDEL = Deleting long vowel in rakkaa- > rakas
• %^EDEL = Deleting e in front of consonant
• %^IDEL = Deleting i in front of i
• %^AE = for a to e change
• %^M2N = for m to n in lumi lunta
• %^¤ = potecting against e:i word-finally (nalle, liike)

Miscellanious tags

• +Span = ?
• +Use/-GC = ?

Flag diacritics

We have manually optimised the structure of our lexicon using following flag diacritics to restrict morhpological combinatorics - only allow compounds with verbs if the verb is further derived into a noun again:

Flag	Explanation
@P.NeedNoun.ON@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised
@D.NeedNoun.ON@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised
@C.NeedNoun@	(Dis)allow compounds with verbs unless nominalised

For languages that allow compounding, the following flag diacritics are needed to control position-based compounding restrictions for nominals. Their use is handled automatically if combined with +CmpN/xxx tags. If not used, they will do no harm.

Flag	Explanation
@P.CmpFrst.FALSE@	Require that words tagged as such only appear first
@D.CmpPref.TRUE@	Block such words from entering ENDLEX
@P.CmpPref.FALSE@	Block these words from making further compounds
@D.CmpLast.TRUE@	Block such words from entering R
@D.CmpSuff.TRUE@	Block such words from entering R
@P.CmpSuff.TRUE@	Mark that we have passed R
@D.CmpNone.TRUE@	Combines with the next tag to prohibit compounding
@U.CmpNone.FALSE@	Combines with the prev tag to prohibit compounding
@P.CmpOnly.TRUE@	Sets a flag to indicate that the word has passed R
@D.CmpOnly.FALSE@	Disallow words coming directly from root.

Use the following flag diacritics to control downcasing of derived proper nouns (e.g. Finnish Pariisi -> pariisilainen). See e.g. North Sámi for how to use these flags. There exists a ready-made regex that will do the actual down-casing given the proper use of these flags.

Flag	Explanation
@U.Cap.Obl@	Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.
@U.Cap.Opt@	Allowing downcasing of derived names: deatnulasj.

These tags are for handling errorneous forms | Flag | Explanation | |—– |———– | | @D.ErrOrth.ON@ | tbw | @P.ErrOrth.ON@ | tbw | @C.ErrOrth@ | tbw | @R.ErrOrth.ON@ | tbw

This is for pronouns with multiple case suffixes (jommallekummalle)

Flag	Explanation
@U.pron.nom@	tbw
@U.pron.gen@	tbw
@U.pron.gen2@	tbw
@U.pron.ill@	tbw
@U.pron.par@	tbw
@U.pron.par2@	tbw
@U.pron.par3@	tbw
@U.pron.ess@	tbw
@U.pron.tra@	tbw
@U.pron.ine@	tbw
@U.pron.ela@	tbw
@U.pron.all@	tbw
@U.pron.ade@	tbw
@U.pron.abl@	tbw
@P.compound.block@	tbw
@D.compound.block@	tbw

Flag diacritic	Explanation
@U.number.one@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.two@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.three@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.four@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.five@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.six@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.seven@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.eight@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.nine@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@U.number.zero@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;

@P.number.one@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.two@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.three@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.four@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.five@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.six@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.seven@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.eight@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.nine@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;
@P.number.zero@	Flag used to give arabic numerals in smj different cases ;

These are for preprocessing

Flag	Explanation
@P.Pmatch.Loc@
@P.Pmatch.Backtrack@
+Use/PMatch
+Use/-PMatch
+Gram/TAbbr	Transitive abbreviation (it needs an argument)
+Gram/NoAbbr	Intransitive abbreviations that are homonymous with more frequent words. They should only be considered abbreviations in the middle of a sentence.
+Gram/TNumAbbr	Transitive abbreviation if the following constituent is numeric
+Gram/NumNoAbbr	Transitive abbreviations for which numerals are complements and normal words. The abbreviation usage is less common and thus only the occurences in the middle of the sentence can be considered as true cases.
+Gram/TIAbbr	Both transitive and intransitive abbreviation
+Gram/IAbbr	Intransitive abbreviation (it takes no argument)
+Gram/3syll	trisyllabic verbs
+Gram/Superl	superlative
+Gram/Comp	comparative

Semantic tags

• +Sem/Amount
• +Sem/Build
• +Sem/Build-room
• +Sem/Cat
• +Sem/Curr
• +Sem/Date
• +Sem/Domain
• +Sem/Domain_Hum
• +Sem/Dummytag
• +Sem/Edu_Hum
• +Sem/Event
• +Sem/Food-med
• +Sem/Group_Hum
• +Sem/Hum
• +Sem/ID
• +Sem/Lang
• +Sem/Mat
• +Sem/Measr
• +Sem/Money
• +Sem/Obj-el
• +Sem/Obj-ling
• +Sem/Org_Prod-audio
• +Sem/Org_Prod-vis
• +Sem/Part
• +Sem/Prod-vis
• +Sem/Route
• +Sem/Rule
• +Sem/Sign
• +Sem/State
• +Sem/State-sick
• +Sem/Substnc
• +Sem/Time
• +Sem/Time-clock
• +Sem/Tool-it
• +Sem/Txt
• +Sem/Veh
• +Sem/Year

Basic lexica, pointing to the other lexicon files

Here is the Root lexicon, pointing to all the parts of speech:

LEXICON Root

• AdjectiveRoot ;
• Adverb ;
• Conjunction ;
• Interjection ;
• Numeral ;
• NounRoot ;
• Postposition ;
• Preposition ;
• Pronoun ;
• Punctuation ;
• Symbols ;
• VerbRoot ;
• Subjunction ;

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This (part of) documentation was generated from src/fst/morphology/root.lexc