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Eine mehrsprachige Website zur Grammatik der litauischen Sprache
A multilingual website on the grammar of the Lithuanian language

Author(s): Daiva Šveikauskienė, ARŪNAS RIBIKAUSKAS, Vytautas ŠVEIKAUSKAS
Subject(s): Theoretical Linguistics, Morphology, Lexis, Baltic Languages, Philology, ICT Information and Communications Technologies
Published by: Lietuvių Kalbos Institutas
Keywords: Grammar; Morphology; Morphemic; Information system; Computational linguistics;

Summary/Abstract: The project was started in the Institute of Lithuanian language in 2016. It aims at presenting detailed data about the grammatical features of Lithuanian words. The goal is to make those data freely accessible to any user on the Internet. The preliminary version covering the words with the root “bėg/run” was published in March 2017. The database contains around 25,000 entries. We are trying to avoid drawbacks that are specific to the works done in the field of computational linguistics. It includes word coverage, grammatical data comprehensiveness, clarity and clearness of presented information etc. Grammatical information about the word in question is presented from three aspects: word structure, morphological data, and morphemic data. It is the first website in Lithuania providing morphemic types. One can get an inflection table for each word the database contains. Usage examples are given for some words. The information on the website is available in seven languages – Lithuanian, English, German, French, Italian, Russian, and Japanese – so foreigners interested in Lithuanian language can use it as well.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 77
  • Page Range: 144-166
  • Page Count: 23
  • Language: German