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"abstract": "We propose a method to automatically train lemmatization rules that handle prefix, infix and suffix changes to generate the lemma from the full form of a word. We explain how the lemmatization rules are created and how the lemmatizer works. We trained this lemmatizer on Danish, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Icelandic, Norwegian, Polish, Slovene and Swedish full form-lemma pairs respectively. We obtained significant improvements of 24 percent for Polish, 2.3 percent for Dutch, 1.5 percent for English, 1.2 percent for German and 1.0 percent for Swedish compared to plain suffix lemmatization using a suffix-only lemmatizer. Icelandic deteriorated with 1.9 percent. We also made an observation regarding the number of produced lemmatization rules as a function of the number of training pairs.",
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"text": "Lemmatizers and stemmers are valuable human language technology tools to improve precision and recall in an information retrieval setting. For example, stemming and lemmatization make it possible to match a query in one morphological form with a word in a document in another morphological form. Lemmatizers can also be used in lexicography to find new words in text material, including the words' frequency of use. Other applications are creation of index lists for book indexes as well as key word lists",
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"text": "Lemmatization is the process of reducing a word to its base form, normally the dictionary look-up form (lemma) of the word. A trivial way to do this is by dictionary look-up. More advanced systems use hand crafted or automatically generated transformation rules that look at the surface form of the word and attempt to produce the correct base form by replacing all or parts of the word.",
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"text": "Stemming conflates a word to its stem. A stem does not have to be the lemma of the word, but can be any trait that is shared between a group of words, so that even the group membership itself can be regarded as the group's stem.",
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"text": "The most famous stemmer is the Porter Stemmer for English (Porter 1980) . This stemmer removes around 60 different suffixes, using rewriting rules in two steps.",
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"text": "The paper is structured as follows: section 2 discusses related work, section 3 explains what the new algorithm is supposed to do, section 4 describes some details of the new algorithm, section 5 evaluates the results, conclusions are drawn in section 6, and finally in section 7 we mention plans for further tests and improvements.",
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"text": "There have been some attempts in creating stemmers or lemmatizers automatically. Ekmek\u00e7ioglu et al. (1996) have used N-gram matching for Turkish that gave slightly better results than regular rule based stemming. Theron and Cloete (1997) learned two-level rules for English, Xhosa and Afrikaans, but only single character insertions, replacements and additions were allowed. Oard et al. (2001) used a language independent stemming technique in a dictionary based cross language information retrieval experiment for German, French and Italian where English was the search language. A four stage backoff strategy for improving recall was intro-duced. The system worked fine for French but not so well for Italian and German. Majumder et al. (2007) describe a statistical stemmer, YASS (Yet Another Suffix Stripper), mainly for Bengali and French, but they propose it also for Hindi and Gujarati. The method finds clusters of similar words in a corpus. The clusters are called stems. The method works best for languages that are basically suffix based. For Bengali precision was 39.3 percent better than without stemming, though no absolute numbers were reported for precision. The system was trained on a corpus containing 301 562 words. Kanis & M\u00fcller (2005) used an automatic technique called OOV Words Lemmatization to train their lemmatizer on Czech, Finnish and English data. Their algorithm uses two pattern tables to handle suffixes as well as prefixes. Plisson et al. (2004) presented results for a system using Ripple Down Rules (RDR) to generate lemmatization rules for Slovene, achieving up to 77 percent accuracy. Matja\u017e et al. (2007) present an RDR system producing efficient suffix based lemmatizers for 14 languages, three of which (English, German and Slovene) our algorithm also has been tested with.",
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"text": "Stempel (Bia\u0142ecki 2004 ) is a stemmer for Polish that is trained on Polish full form -lemma pairs. When tested with inflected out-ofvocabulary (OOV) words Stempel produces 95.4 percent correct stems, of which about 81 percent also happen to be correct lemmas. Hedlund (2001) used two different approaches to automatically find stemming rules from a corpus, for both Swedish and English. Unfortunately neither of these approaches did beat the hand crafted rules in the Porter stemmer for English (Porter 1980) or the Euroling SiteSeeker stemmer for Swedish, (Carlberger et al. 2001) . Jongejan & Haltrup (2005) constructed a trainable lemmatizer for the lexicographical task of finding lemmas outside the existing dictionary, bootstrapping from a training set of full form -lemma pairs extracted from the existing dictionary. This lemmatizer looks only at the suffix part of the word. Its performance was compared with a stemmer using hand crafted stemming rules, the Euroling SiteSeeker stemmer for Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, and also with a stemmer for Greek, (Dalianis & Jongejan 2006) . The results showed that lemmatizer was as good as the stemmer for Swedish, slightly better for Danish and Norwegian but worse for Greek. These results are very dependent on the quality (errors, size) and complexity (diacritics, capitals) of the training data.",
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"text": "In the current work we have used Jongejan & Haltrup's lemmatizer as a reference, referring to it as the 'suffix lemmatizer'.",
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"text": "German and Dutch need more advanced methods than suffix replacement since their affixing of words (inflection of words) can include both prefixing, infixing and suffixing. Therefore we created a trainable lemmatizer that handles pre-and infixes in addition to suffixes.",
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"text": "Here is an example to get a quick idea of what we wanted to achieve with the new training algorithm. Suppose we have the following Dutch full form -lemma pair:",
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"text": "If this were the sole input given to the training program, it should produce a transformation rule like this: *ge*a*d \u2192 ***en The asterisks are wildcards and placeholders. The pattern on the left hand side contains three wildcards, each one corresponding to one placeholder in the replacement string on the right hand side, in the same order. The characters matched by a wildcard are inserted in the place kept free by the corresponding placeholder in the replacement expression.",
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"text": "With this \"set\" of rules a lemmatizer would be able to construct the correct lemma for some words that had not been used during the training, such as the word verstekgezaagd (Translation: mitre cut): For most words, however, the lemmatizer would simply fail to produce any output, because not all words do contain the literal strings ge and a and a final d. We remedy this by adding a one-sizefits-all rule that says \"return the input as output\":",
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"text": "The lemmatizer then finds the rule with the most specific pattern (see 4.2) that matches and applies only this rule. The last rule's pattern matches any word and so the lemmatizer cannot fail to produce output. Thus, in our toy rule set consisting of two rules, the first rule handles words like gevraagd, afgezaagd, geklaagd, (all three correctly) and getalmd (incorrectly) while the second rule handles words like directeur (correctly) and zei (incorrectly).",
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"text": "A lemmatizer that only applies one rule per word is useful for inflected languages, a class of languages that includes all Indo-European languages. For these languages morphological change is not a productive process, which means that no word can be morphologically changed in an unlimited number of ways. Ideally, there are only a finite number of inflection schemes and thus a finite number of lemmatization rules should suffice to lemmatize indefinitely many words.",
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"text": "In agglutinated languages, on the other hand, there are classes of words that in principle have innumerous word forms. One way to lemmatize such words is to peel off all agglutinated morphemes one by one. This is an iterative process and therefore the lemmatizer discussed in this paper, which applies only one rule per word, is not an obvious choice for agglutinated languages.",
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"text": "The training algorithm generates a data structure consisting of rules that a lemmatizer must traverse to arrive at a rule that is elected to fire. Conceptually the training process is as follows. As the data structure is being built, the full form in each training pair is tentatively lemmatized using the data structure that has been created up to that stage. If the elected rule produces the right lemma from the full form, nothing needs to be done. Otherwise, the data structure must be expanded with a rule such that the new rule a) is elected instead of the erroneous rule and b) produces the right lemma from the full form. The training process terminates when the full forms in all pairs in the training set are transformed to their corresponding lemmas.",
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"text": "After training, the data structure of rules is made permanent and can be consulted by a lemmatizer. The lemmatizer must elect and fire rules in the same way as the training algorithm, so that all words from the training set are lemmatized correctly. It may however fail to produce the correct lemmas for words that were not in the training set -the OOV words.",
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"text": "During training the Ratcliff/Obershelp algorithm (Ratcliff & Metzener 1988) is used to find the longest non-overlapping similar parts in a given full form -lemma pair. For example, in the pair afgevraagd \u2192 afvragen the longest common substring is vra, followed by af and g. These similar parts are replaced with wildcards and placeholders: *ge*a*d \u2192 ***en Now we have the prime rule for the training pair, the least specific rule necessary to lemmatize the word correctly. Rules with more specific patterns -derived rules -can be created by adding characters and by removing or adding wildcards. A rule that is derived from another rule (derived or prime) is more specific than the original rule: Any word that is successfully matched by the pattern of a derived rule is also successfully matched by the pattern of the original rule, but the converse is not the case. This establishes a partial ordering of all rules. See Figures 1 and 2 , where the rules marked 'p' are prime rules and those marked 'd' are derived.",
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