This entry consists of XML files with 96,290 lexical units (nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs) from the Sloleks Morphological Lexicon of Slovene 2.0 (http://hdl.handle.net/11356/1230) that include codes for morphological patterns.
The pattern codes were designed based on a manual analysis of automatically extracted paradigms and were obtained as follows: The lexical units from Sloleks 2.0 were first automatically clustered into groups through a rule-based approach based on (1) a number of predetermined grammatical features from the MULTEXT-East Version 6 morphosyntactic specifications for Slovenian (http://nl.ijs.si/ME/V6/), such as part of speech, gender and properness for nouns, aspect for verbs, and (2) the differentiating characteristics of their morphological paradigms (i.e. their mutable word parts, which are similar to but not always overlapping with the linguistic definition of word endings – for example: čas-Ø; čas-a; čas-om / prijatelj- Ø; prijatelj-a; prijatelj-em / odstot-ek; odstot-ka; odstot-kom).
More than 1,000 automatically extracted pattern candidates were subsequently linguistically analyzed, combined into groups, and hierarchically organized. As a result, every lexical unit in the XML file features a code (listed as ) corresponding to the relevant morphological paradigm in the hierarchy (available in the accompanying file titled "nssss_morphological_pattern_hierarchy_1.0.tsv").
Because the patterns were extracted from Sloleks 2.0, they reflect the decisions that were implemented in its initial compilation, particularly in terms of the degree of morphological variation documented in the lexicon (e.g. not all morphological variants are necessarily included in the lexicon) and paradigm integrity (for instance, some nouns in Sloleks 2.0 only feature singular or plural forms). It should be noted that non-standard word forms were not included in the design of the patterns. In addition, the XML file does not contain lexical units from Sloleks 2.0 that consist of word forms from more than one morphological paradigm (e.g. lesketati – lesketam / leskečem; or lojen – lojenega / lojnega), or other problematic units (such as those with missing or erroneous data).
