Lexical resources and tools for tagging polish texts within GRAMLEX

Authors:

• Zygmunt Vetulani,
• Jacek Martinek,
• Tomasz Marek Obrębski,
• Grażyna Małgorzata Vetulani

Abstract

In this paper we present some of the main results obtained within the European project COPERNICUS 621 “GRAMLEX” aiming at development of basic resources, tools and methods useful in language engineering. Results presented here were obtained by the Polish team of the GRAMLEX project using Polish data but are easily portable to all Indo-European languages. They are of special interest for highly inflectional languages (e.g. for all Slavonic languages). The high portability of results follows from the proposed, very general format of morphological description (GRAMCODE) and from the general character and great simplicity of algorithms referring to this format. In the paper we briefly present the GRAMODE format, as well as the fundamental dictionary based tool for morphological lemmatization and tagging of texts (LEXAN). © 1997 John Benjamins Publishing Company.