Processing Croatian Aspectual Derivatives

Šojat, Krešimir and Kocijan, Kristina and Filko, Matea. (2019). Processing Croatian Aspectual Derivatives. In: Formalizing Natural Languages with NooJ 2018 and Its Natural Language Processing Applications. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 987 . Springer International Publishing, pp. 50-61. ISBN 978-3-030-10867-0

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Abstract

The main objective of this paper is to detect and describe major derivational processes and affixes used in the derivation of aspectually connected Croa-tian verbs. This kind of analysis is enabled by previous detection of verbal derivational families, i.e. families of verbs with the same root as well as the derivational affixes they contain. Using NooJ, we automatically detect such derivational processes and assign the aspectual tag to derivatives. The proce-dure is based on the list of selected base forms and derivatives, on the list of derivational affixes and their allomorphs, and on the set of derivational rules. For this objective we selected 15 verbal derivational families comprising app. 250 derivatives in total. The output is being used for the development of a large on-line database of Croatian aspectual pairs, triples and quadruplets. Such a resource will be valuable for various research works in lexicology and lexicography.

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