Irish National Morphology Database: a high-accuracy open-source dataset of Irish words

Abstract

The Irish National Morphology Database is a human-verified, Official Standard-compliant dataset containing the inflected forms and other morpho-syntactic properties of Irish nouns, adjectives, verbs and prepositions. It is being developed by Foras na Gaeilge as part of the New English-Irish Dictionary project. This paper introduces this dataset and its accompanying software library Gramadán.

Developing the Gaois Linguistic Database of Irish-language Surnames

“…In the minimal format, only the base form is stored explicitly in the entry. In the expanded format, in addition to the base form, male/wife/daughter forms and inflected forms are generated, added, and marked up, for example: <surname-irish> <form gender="male" case="nom"><pre>Ó</pre> Briain</form> <form gender="male" case="gen"><pre>Uí</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="male" case="voc"><pre>Uí</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="wife" case="nom"><pre>Uí</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="wife" case="gen"><pre>Uí</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="wife" case="voc"><pre>Uí</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="daughter" case="nom"><pre>Ní</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="daughter" case="gen"><pre>Ní</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> <form gender="female" familyStatus="daughter" case="voc"><pre>Ní</pre> B<mut>h</mut>riain</form> </surname-irish> This method of providing minimal and expanded formats is inspired by a similar distinction made in the Irish National Morphology Database (Měchura 2014). The algorithm which converts from minimal to expanded format exists in two implementations, once as an XSL stylesheet (available publicly for download) and once as a function in the C# programming language (used internally by our web application).…”