Finite-State Computational Morphology: An Analyzer and Generator for Georgian

1 Introduction2 Georgian Language2.1 Introduction2.2 Alphabets and Phonology2.2.1 Alphabets2.2.2 Phonology2.2.3 Word Structure2.3 Morphology2.3.1 Noun Inflection2.3.2 Adjectival Inflection2.3.3 Numeral Inflection2.3.4 Pronouns2.3.5 Clytics2.3.6 Verbal Inflection2.3.7 Adverbs2.3.8 Conjunctions2.3.9 Particles2.3.10 Interjection2.4 SummaryReferences3 Computational Modeling3.1 Introduction3.2 Tokenization3.3 Morphological analyzer3.3.1 Noun lexicon and replace rules3.3.2 Adjective lexicon and replace rules3.3.3 Numeral lexicon and replace rules3.3.4 Pronoun lexicon and replace rules3.3.5 Verb lexicon and replace rules3.3.6 Participle and verbal noun lexicons3.3.7 Closed word-classes: Adverbs, Conjunctions, Particles, Interjections and Adpositions3.3.8 Abbreviations3.4 SummaryReferences4 Testing and Evaluation4.1 Introduction4.2 Rule integrity4.3 Consistency and order of tags4.4 Language coverage test: wordlists and corpus data4.4.1 Corpus compilation4.4.2 Corpus processing and markup4.4.3 Language coverage4.5 SummaryReferences5 APPENDICES5.1 Appendix A. Tagsets5.2 Appendix B. Flag diacritics5.3 Appendix C. Structural markupINDEXESName indexSubject index

Irina Lobzhanidze is Professor of Linguistics at Ilia State University, Georgia, where she is also the Director of MA program in Applied linguistics. She received her Ph.D. in Linguistics from Ilia State University, Georgia. She held visiting Georgian studies fellow position at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies (2019-2020). Her main research interests lie in the areas of morphology and syntax, and their interface. She has worked extensively on developing language processing tools and resources for Georgian, including the morphological analyzer and generator of Georgian. She is the Linguistic Coordinator of the Georgian Language Corpus (GLC), a co-author of the Dictionary of Idioms (2014-2017) and the Principal Re-searcher in the construction of the Wardrops’ Collection Online (WCO). Previously, Irina conducted research on various aspects of Georgian idioms and degree of their ＂frozenness＂.