A computational grammar and lexicon for Maltese

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The meta-variables in the above trees are summarised below: Placeholder Meaning Example Common noun UseN foot_N, UseN2 father_N2 Polarity PPos, PNeg Subject i_Pron, youPl_Pron Clause (see above) Verb go_V Direct object pronoun i_Pron, youPl_Pron Indirect object pronoun i_Pron, youPl_Pron Noun phrase DetCN (DetQuant DefArt NumSg) (UseN door_N) Speed While the scripts are relatively straightforward, the one for verbs in particular can take a considerable length of time to finish running. This happens simply because there so many trees need to be linearised by the grammar. Running the full-form script on the four thousand verbs available in the collection yielded the following: time runghc wordforms.hs real user sys 293m38.611s 282m50.424s 2m51.348s 59
Chapter 4 Conclusions This final chapter ends the thesis by highlighting the most major contributions of this work, together with its limitations. After a brief summary of related work in this field, we conclude with some directions for future work. 4.1 Contributions All in all, the goals set out in the beginning of this thesis have all been met successfully. The main contributions of this work can be summarised as follows. 1. The first computational grammar of Maltese covering both syntax and morphology, and which is freely available as open-source software. 2. A new language implementation for the GF Resource Grammar Library. Maltese is the 28 th language to be added to the library, and the first complete implementation of a Semitic language. It is also the 11 th resource grammar to have a monolingual dictionary module. 3. An online collection of digital lexical resources for Maltese, which is searchable in a unified way and whose contents is freely available. It is hoped that this collection platform can become the first complete full-form computational lexicon for Maltese. 4.2 Limitations 4.2.1 Grammar limitations Coverage Despite all the work put into the development of the resource grammar, there are a number of known limitations in terms of coverage of the Maltese language. • Interactions at word boundaries do not work perfectly. Some phenomena, such as the insertion of euphonic vowels with the definite article are incomplete, while others such 60
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A Computational Grammar and Lexicon
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The research work disclosed in this
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Abstract A Computational Grammar an
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Contents 1 Introduction and backgro
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4.3.1 Computational linguistics res
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B.2 Analysis of verb participles .
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Conventions The following conventio
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Maltese today is still Semitic in o
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The definite article is the proclit
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Page 23 and 24: Abstract syntax At the language-ind
Page 25 and 26: Maltese concrete syntax For the Mal
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Page 33 and 34: 2.2.2 Verb The verb is arguably the
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Page 37 and 38: Verb : Type = { s : VForm => VerbSt
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Page 45 and 46: fi (‘in’) il- bieb fil-bieb (
Page 47 and 48: oper Pronoun = { s : PronForm => St
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Page 85 and 86: mkV_VII Str -> Str -> Root -> V For
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Page 89 and 90: computer_N 1 kompjuter - - kompjute
Page 91 and 92: plastic_N 3 plastik - - - - policem
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Page 95 and 96: tie_V2 qafel - maqful travel_V vvja
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Page 99 and 100: Perf. P1 Pl P3 Sg Masc P1 Pl - - Pe
Page 101 and 102: Perf. P2 Pl P3 Sg Masc P3 Sg Fem ft
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Page 105 and 106: Impf. P1 Sg P3 Sg Fem P3 Pl niftaħ
Page 107 and 108: Impf. P2 Sg P3 Pl P2 Pl - - Impf. P
Page 109 and 110: Impf. P3 Sg Fem - - tiftaħ tiftaħ
Page 111 and 112: Imp. P2 Sg P2 Pl - - - Imp. P2 Sg P
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Page 115 and 116: s.t. something O object P1, P2, P3
Page 117 and 118: Bibliography Angelov, Krasimir. 200
Page 119 and 120: Mangion, Gordon K. 1999. Spelling C
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