@inproceedings{kwak-etal-2023-morphological,
    title = "Morphological reinflection with weighted finite-state transducers",
    author = "Kwak, Alice  and
      Hammond, Michael  and
      Wing, Cheyenne",
    editor = {Nicolai, Garrett  and
      Chodroff, Eleanor  and
      Mailhot, Frederic  and
      {\c{C}}{\"o}ltekin, {\c{C}}a{\u{g}}r{\i}},
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the 20th SIGMORPHON workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology",
    month = jul,
    year = "2023",
    address = "Toronto, Canada",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://aclanthology.org/2023.sigmorphon-1.15",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/2023.sigmorphon-1.15",
    pages = "132--137",
    abstract = "This paper describes the submission by the University of Arizona to the SIGMORPHON 2023 Shared Task on typologically diverse morphological (re-)infection. In our submission, we investigate the role of frequency, length, and weighted transducers in addressing the challenge of morphological reinflection. We start with the non-neural baseline provided for the task and show how some improvement can be gained by integrating length and frequency in prefix selection. We also investigate using weighted finite-state transducers, jump-started from edit distance and directly augmented with frequency. Our specific technique is promising and quite simple, but we see only modest improvements for some languages here.",
}

This paper describes the submission by the University of Arizona to the SIGMORPHON 2023 Shared Task on typologically diverse morphological (re-)infection. In our submission, we investigate the role of frequency, length, and weighted transducers in addressing the challenge of morphological reinflection. We start with the non-neural baseline provided for the task and show how some improvement can be gained by integrating length and frequency in prefix selection. We also investigate using weighted finite-state transducers, jump-started from edit distance and directly augmented with frequency. Our specific technique is promising and quite simple, but we see only modest improvements for some languages here.
Kwak, Alice Hammond, Michael Wing, Cheyenne
Morphological reinflection with weighted finite-state transducers