A computational grammar and lexicon for Maltese
A computational grammar and lexicon for Maltese
A computational grammar and lexicon for Maltese
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purposes.<br />
1.4 Goals<br />
This section summarises the motivations <strong>for</strong> this work <strong>and</strong> outlines its planned contributes.<br />
1.4.1 Motivation<br />
As neatly summarised in figure 1.1, <strong>Maltese</strong> is very poorly represented in digital terms. Despite<br />
there being an known academic interest in this area <strong>for</strong> at least 15 years, both the breadth<br />
<strong>and</strong> depth of linguistic tools <strong>and</strong> resources available <strong>for</strong> <strong>Maltese</strong> is still quite limited. The recently<br />
created <strong>Maltese</strong> corpus is by far the biggest milestone in the field to date, but there are<br />
many other areas of <strong>Maltese</strong> language technology which are lacking. As a native speaker of the<br />
<strong>Maltese</strong>, the motivation to contribute to this field is there<strong>for</strong>e clear.<br />
1.4.2 Contributions<br />
The goals main body of this work can be divided into two major contributions.<br />
A <strong>computational</strong> <strong>grammar</strong><br />
The Resource Grammar Library has seen a steady growth in terms of language support, <strong>and</strong><br />
to date covers 27 languages from all over the world. Complete RGL implementations exist <strong>for</strong><br />
Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi,<br />
Interlingua, Japanese, Italian, Latvian, Nepali, Norwegian bokmål, Persian, Polish, Punjabi,<br />
Romanian, Russian, Sindhi, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, <strong>and</strong> Urdu. Partial implementations also<br />
exist <strong>for</strong> a number of other languages, <strong>and</strong> all resources are completely open-source under the<br />
LGPL license. <strong>Maltese</strong> will be the 28 th addition to the library, <strong>and</strong> the first Semitic language to<br />
have a complete implementation. A resource <strong>grammar</strong> implementation <strong>for</strong> <strong>Maltese</strong> will:<br />
1. Contribute directly to the Grammatical Framework by extending the coverage of its st<strong>and</strong>ard<br />
library.<br />
2. Provide a system <strong>for</strong> producing morphological inflection tables <strong>and</strong> per<strong>for</strong>ming morphological<br />
analysis in <strong>Maltese</strong>.<br />
3. Act as a limited-domain parser <strong>and</strong> translator to <strong>and</strong> from all other languages available<br />
in the RGL, without requiring individual rules per language pair.<br />
4. Enable software developers using to GF to provide interface localisations into <strong>Maltese</strong><br />
without requiring manual translations.<br />
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