Evaluating a Morphological Analyser of Inuktitut

Jeremy Nicholson1,  Trevor Cohn2,  Timothy Baldwin1
1The University of Melbourne, 2The University of Sheffield


Abstract

We evaluate the performance of a morphological analyser for Inuktitut across a medium-sized corpus, where it produces a useful analysis for two out of every three types. We then compare its segmentation to that of simpler approaches to morphology, and use these as a pre-processing step to a word alignment task. Our observations show that the richer approaches provide little as compared to simply finding the head, which is more in line with the particularities of the task.