Macedonian DELAS – first results Aleksandar Petrovski Tetovo, Macedonia

Process of constructing Scanning traditional dictionary Scanning traditional dictionary OCR OCR Eliminating errors Eliminating errors Defining grammatical categories Defining grammatical categories Developing inflectional graphs Developing inflectional graphs Assigning inflectional classes to lexical entries Assigning inflectional classes to lexical entries

Word groups, DELAS entries Word groupCodeNumber of entries NounsN30,538 NounsN30,538 AdjectivesADJ 9,522 AdjectivesADJ 9,522 PronounsPRO 28 PronounsPRO 28 VerbsV17,978 VerbsV17,978 AdverbsADV 2,820 AdverbsADV 2,820 PrepositionsPREP 62 PrepositionsPREP 62 ConjunctionsCONJ 61 ConjunctionsCONJ 61 ParticlesPART 60 ParticlesPART 60 InterjectionsINT 135 InterjectionsINT 135 NumeralsNUM 92 NumeralsNUM 92 Total:61,296

Nouns, grammatical categories ATTVALExampleCode GenderMasculinelistm Femininedevojkaf Neuterdeten NumberSingularlists Common plurallistovip Countplurallistac Collective plurallisja, lisjel CaseNominativelist0 Vocativelistu, listev Other case formsbrataa DefinitenessNolist0 Yeslistotx Yes, close listovy Yes, farlistonz

Adjectives, grammatical categories ATTVALExampleCode GenderMasculinedobarm GenderMasculinedobarm Femininedobraf Femininedobraf Neuterdobron Neuterdobron Not defineddobrig Not defineddobrig NumberSingulardobars NumberSingulardobars Pluraldobrip Pluraldobrip DegreePositivedobar7 DegreePositivedobar7 Comparativepodobar8 Comparativepodobar8 Superlativenajdobar9 Superlativenajdobar9 DefinitenessNodobar0 DefinitenessNodobar0 Yesdobriotx Yesdobriotx Yes, close dobriovy Yes, close dobriovy Yes, fardobrionz Yes, fardobrionz

Pronouns, grammatical categories ATTVALExampleCode GenderMasculinetojm GenderMasculinetojm Femininetaaf Femininetaaf Neutertoan Neutertoan Not definedjasg Not definedjasg NumberSingularkojs NumberSingularkojs Pluralkoip Pluralkoip Not definedshtoe Not definedshtoe Case Nominativenieo Case Nominativenieo Dative longnamd Dative longnamd Accusative longnasa Accusative longnasa Dative shortniq Dative shortniq Accusative shortnew Accusative shortnew PersonFirstjas1 PersonFirstjas1 Secondti2 Secondti2 Thirdtoj3 Thirdtoj3 Not definedsebe4 Not definedsebe4

Adverbs, grammatical categories ATTVALExampleCode ATTVALExampleCode DegreePositivemalku7 DegreePositivemalku7 Comparativepomalku8 Comparativepomalku8 Superlativenajmalku9 Superlativenajmalku9 DefinitenessNomnogu0 DefinitenessNomnogu0 Yesmnogutex Yesmnogutex

Present situation Word groupDELAS entriesDELAF entriesInflect.FactorClasses Nouns 30, , Nouns 30, , Adjectives 9, , Adjectives 9, , Pronouns Pronouns Verbs 17,978 Verbs 17,978 Adverbs 2,820 Adverbs 2,820 Prepositions Prepositions Conjunctions Conjunctions Particles Particles Interjections Interjections Numerals 92 Numerals 92 Total: 61, ,

Applying dictionaries - results Different tokens:5,368 Different tokens:5,368 Different simple forms:5,340 Different simple forms:5,340 Different simple words:3,074 Different simple words:3,074 Different unknown tokens:2,266 Different unknown tokens:2,266 Simple words lexical entries:3,356 Simple words lexical entries:3,356 Unknown simple words:2,266 Unknown simple words:2,266