An Analysis of Myanmar Inflectional Morphology Using Finite-state Method

This Morphological analysis are essential steps in any Natural Language Processing (NLP) Application. Morphological analysis means taking a word as input and identifying their roots/stems and affixes. It can help in automatic spelling and grammar checking, machine translation, part of speech tagging, and parsing applications. Myanmar language is morphologically rich and it is an inflected language because Myanmar words can be combined to create a new word. This paper presents an analysis of inflection for morphology of Myanmar words. Finite State Automaton (FSA) is used to model for morphological analysis which are based on a set of rules and a monolingual lexicon that contains root words or stem words. It uses the inflectional morphemes to indicate if a word is singular or plural on noun whether it is singular or plural on pronoun, besides it is a positive or comparative or superlative form on adjective and present tense or past tense or future tense on verb.