A South Sámi Grammar Checker For Stopping Language Change

Linda Wiechetek, Maja Lisa Kappfjell


Abstract
We have released and evaluated the first South Sámi grammar checker GramDivvun. It corrects two frequent error types that are caused by and causing language change and a loss of the language’s morphological richness. These general error types comprise a number of errors regarding the adjective paradigm (confusion of attributive and predicative forms) and the negation paradigm. In addition, our work includes a classification of common error types regarding the adjective and negation paradigms and lead to extensive grammatical error mark-up of our gold corpus. We achieve precisions above 71% for both adjective and negation error correction.
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2023.nodalida-cgmta.7
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Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications
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May
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2023
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Tórshavn, Faroe Islands
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Eckhard Bick, Trond Trosterud, Tanel Alumäe
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Linda Wiechetek and Maja Lisa Kappfjell. 2023. A South Sámi Grammar Checker For Stopping Language Change. In Proceedings of the NoDaLiDa 2023 Workshop on Constraint Grammar - Methods, Tools and Applications, pages 46–54, Tórshavn, Faroe Islands. Association of Computational Linguistics.
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