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Author: Leonel F. de Alencar, leonel.de.alencar@ufc.br, Federal University of Ceará
Date: April 16, 2018, updated February 18, 2020

This folder contains finite-state grammars, bash, Python, and Foma
(XFST) scripts for compliling unweighted finite-state
transducers (FSTs) modeling Portuguese derivational morphology, using
This folder contains source code for compliling unweighted finite-state
transducers (FSTs) modeling Portuguese derivational morphology with
the free software/open source finite-state packages FOMA (Hulden 2009)
and its proprietary counterpart XFST (Beesley & Karttunen 2003),
freely available for non-commercial purposes.
freely available for non-commercial purposes. The main components of
the source code are finite-state grammars, but additional bash and
Python scripts are used for the purposes specified in
the respective incode documentation.

The focus is the formation of diminutives, augmentatives, and
superlatives (so called evaluative suffixes, according to Villalva &
Silvestre 2014, among others). Productive word-formation is modeled
using finite-sate morphology (Beesley & Karttunen 2003), as described in the paper:
Silvestre 2014, among others). Productive word-formation processes are implemented
within the paradigm of finite-sate morphology (Beesley & Karttunen 2003), as described in the paper:


ALENCAR, Leonel Figueiredo de; CUCONATO , Bruno; RADEMAKER, Alexandre. MorphoBr: an open source large-coverage full-form lexicon for morphological analysis of Portuguese. Texto Livre: Linguagem e Tecnologia, Belo Horizonte, v. 11, n. 3, p. 1-25, set.- dez. 2018.
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documentation of the respective source files.
This implementation of derivational morphology is work in
progress. Beginning with the diminutives, we will progressively
include the other suffixes. It is assumed some familiarity with the
include other suffixes. It is assumed some familiarity with the
paradigm of finite-state morphology to understand the source files and
their documentation, so as to eventually customize them to exclude or
include some derivations to suit a particular dialect of
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