1st ed. 2022 Edition
by Irina Lobzhanidze (Author)
This handbook provides a comprehensive
account of current research on the finite-state morphology of Georgian
and enables the reader to enter quickly into Georgian morphosyntax and
its computational processing. It combines linguistic analysis with
application of finite-state technology to processing of the language.
The book opens with the author’s synoptic overview of the main lines of
research, covers the properties of the word and its components, then
moves up to the description of Georgian morphosyntax and the
morphological analyzer and generator of Georgian.The book comprises
three chapters and accompanying appendices. The aim of the first chapter
is to describe the morphosyntactic structure of Georgian, focusing on
differences between Old and Modern Georgian. The second chapter focuses
on the application of finite-state technology to the processing of
Georgian and on the compilation of a tokenizer, a morphological analyzer
and a generator for Georgian. The third chapter discusses the testing
and evaluation of the analyzer’s output and the compilation of the
Georgian Language Corpus (GLC), which is now accessible online and
freely available to the research community.Since the development of the
analyzer, the field of computational linguistics has advanced in several
ways, but the majority of new approaches to language processing has not
been tested on Georgian. So, the organization of the book makes it
easier to handle new developments from both a theoretical and practical
viewpoint.The book includes a detailed index and references as well as
the full list of morphosyntactic tags. It will be of interest and
practical use to a wide range of linguists and advanced students
interested in Georgian morphosyntax generally as well as to researchers
working in the field of computational linguistics and focusing on how
languages with complicated morphosyntax can be handled through
finite-state approaches.
