A finite-state morphological analyser for Paraguayan Guarani

摘要

This article describes the development of morphological analyser for Paraguayan Guarani, an agglutinative indigenous language spoken by nearly 6 million people in South America. The implementation of our analyser uses HFST (Helsiki Finite State Technology) to model mor-photactics and phonological processes occurring in Guarani. We assess the efficacy of the approach on publically available corpora and find that the naieve coverage of analyser is between 86% and91%.