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Translation and tools
Digital tools speed up lookup and comparison. They also inherit editorial decisions, normalization rules and corpus gaps. A good workflow shows the tool’s candidate alongside the evidence used to accept or reject it.
Translation and tools
Parser output
A morphological parser applies a lexicon and rules to a written form. It can return several possible lemmas or grammatical analyses for the same string. That ambiguity is normal: syntax and context choose among candidates. A parser may fail on a dialect spelling, a damaged sign or a word absent from its lexicon.
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A reading check
Worked question
A parser gives one lemma for a fragmentary token in square brackets. What should the display tell the learner?
Show the analysis
That the source is restored or incomplete, which edition supplies the restoration, what other analyses are possible, and which grammar or lexicon supports the chosen parse.