Using Finite State Transducers for Making Efficient Reading Comprehension Dictionaries

• Main Authors: Ryan Johnson, Lene Antonsen, Trond Trosterud
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Lexicography; Computational Morphology; Orthographic Variation; Finite-state Transducers; Electronic Dictionaries; Lemma; saami
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.658.4282; http://emmtee.net/oe/nodalida13/conference/45.pdf

This article presents a novel way of combining finite-state transducers (FSTs) with electronic dictionaries, thereby creating efficient reading comprehension dictionaries. We compare a North Saami- Norwegian and a South Saami- Norwegian dictionary, both enriched with an FST, with existing, available...