Journal of Undergraduate Research
Keywords
Persian language, morphology engine, phonology, orthography
College
Humanities
Department
Linguistics
Abstract
The Persian language, or Farsi, stands in a unique position in the international scene for political, religious, and historical reasons. With over 60 million speakers in Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, interest has been growing lately in the West in using current technologies to better manipulate information in Farsi. In order to utilize Farsi data effectively, computers must be able to understand its morphology, or the individual components of a word. This understanding of morphology is necessary because of the language’s productive usage of affixes, as well as the substantial interaction between its morphology and its phonology and orthography. I have been developing a morphology engine for Farsi that can both recognize and generate inflected Persian words.
Recommended Citation
Dehdari, Jonathan and Lonsdale, Dr. Deryle
(2014)
"Two-level Persian Morphology Engine,"
Journal of Undergraduate Research: Vol. 2014:
Iss.
1, Article 685.
Available at:
https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/jur/vol2014/iss1/685