Finite-state Approach based Myanmar Morphological Analysis

Abstract

Morphological analysis (MA) is needed in any Natural Language Processing (NLP) Application. It means taking a word as input and identifying the stem and affix. MA provides information about a word’s semantics and the syntactic role which plays in a sentence. This paper presents the development of a Myanmar morphological analysis; morphological processes prevalent in Myanmar language are explored. We consider Myanmar MA for noun, verb, adjective and adverb. Myanmar morphology reveals the three types. They are inflectional morphology, derivational morphology and compounding. In this work, finite state automaton (FSA) is used to model Myanmar morphology which contains a monolingual lexicon. MA will be to apply as a portion of the Grammar Checker for detecting grammatical errors in Myanmar texts. The proposed framework of this paper is to describe Myanmar morphological analysis.