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Variants and Homographs: Eternal Problem of Dictionary Makers

Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2008

Abstract

We discuss two types of asymmetry between wordforms and their (morphological) characteristics, namely (morphological) variants and homographs. We introduce a concept of multiple lemma that allows for unique identification of wordform variants as well as `morphologically-based' identification of homographic lexemes.

The deeper insight into these concepts allows further refining of morphological dictionaries and subsequently better performance of any NLP tasks.