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The paper deals with the development of a morphosyntactic analyzer for the Tibetan language. It aims to create a consistent formal grammatical description (formal grammar) of the Tibetan language, including all grammar levels of the language system from morphosyntax (syntactics of morphemes) to the syntax of composite sentences and supra-phrasal entities. Syntactic annotation was created on the basis of morphologically tagged corpora of Tibetan texts. The peculiarity of the annotation consists in combining both the immediate constituents structure and the dependency one. An individual (basic) grammar module of Tibetan grammatical categories, its possible values, and restrictions on their combination are created. Types of tokens and their grammatical features form the basis of the formal grammar being produced, allowing linguistic processor to build syntactic trees of various kinds. Methods of avoiding redundant structural ambiguity are proposed.
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Development of the morphosyntactic analyzer for the Tibetan language is supported by the grant No. 16-06-00578 “Morphosyntactic Analyser of Texts in the Tibetan language” by Russian Foundation for Basic Research. Authors also acknowledge Saint-Petersburg State University for a research grant 2.38.293.2014 “Modernizing the Tibetan Literary Tradition” which enabled the conceptual study of the original Tibetan texts.
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Dobrov, A., Dobrova, A., Grokhovskiy, P., Soms, N., Zakharov, V. (2016). Morphosyntactic Analyzer for the Tibetan Language: Aspects of Structural Ambiguity. In: Sojka, P., Horák, A., Kopeček, I., Pala, K. (eds) Text, Speech, and Dialogue. TSD 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9924. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45510-5_25
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