Derivation predicting inflection
A quantitative study of the relation between derivational history and inflectional behavior in Latin
Olivier Bonami | Université de Paris, CNRS, Laboratoire de linguistique formelle
Matteo Pellegrini | Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , Milano
In this paper, we investigate the value of derivational information in predicting the inflectional behavior of
lexemes. We focus on Latin, for which large-scale data on both inflection and derivation are easily available. We train boosting
tree classifiers to predict the inflection class of verbs and nouns with and without different pieces of derivational information.
For verbs, we also model inflectional behavior in a word-based fashion, training the same type of classifier to predict wordforms
given knowledge of other wordforms of the same lexemes. We find that derivational information is indeed helpful, and document an
asymmetry between the beginning and the end of words, in that the final element in a word is highly predictive, while prefixes
prove to be uninformative. The results obtained with the word-based methodology also allow for a finer-grained description of the
behavior of different pairs of cells.
Keywords: morphology, derivation, inflection, Latin
Article outline
- 1.Introduction
- 2.Data collection and annotation
- 3.Predicting inflection classes
- 3.1Methodology
- 3.2Predicting the conjugation of verbs
- 3.3Predicting the declension of nouns
- 4.A word-based alternative: Predicting verb forms
- 4.1Rationale
- 4.2The information-theoretic approach to the PCFP
- 4.3The PCFP as a classification problem
- 4.4Results
- 5.Conclusions
- Acknowledgements
- Notes
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Published online: 21 January 2022
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.21002.bon
https://doi.org/10.1075/sl.21002.bon
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