@InProceedings{meroni-franois-silberztein:2026:latell,
  author    = {Meroni, Fabio  and  François, Alexandre  and  Silberztein, Max},
  title     = {Automating Mwotlap morphology using formal grammar},
  booktitle      = {Proceedings of the First International Conference on Language Technologies for Low-resource Languages (LaTeLL 2026)},
  month          = {September},
  year           = {2026},
  address        = {Fes, Morocco},
  publisher      = {Association for Computational Linguistics},
  pages     = {59--67},
  abstract  = {This paper presents a rule-based computational formalization of vowel alternations in Mwotlap morphology using NooJ. Mwotlap displays several morphophonological processes at the prefix-root boundary, including vowel copy, epenthesis, transfer, elision, and blockage. To model these first three, which cannot be derived by simple string concatenation within NooJ's finite-state framework, we introduce a new string-edit operator which swaps adjacent segments. This operator unifies vowel copy, insertion, and transfer under a single formal mechanism while preserving linguistic generalization.},
  url       = {https://aclanthology.org/2026.latell-1.8}
}