A Morphological Analyzer for Filipino Verbs*

Abstract. This paper presents a morphological analyzer that accepts Filipino verbs conjugated in different forms as inputs and analyzes them to produce the affixes used, the infinitive forms, and the tenses of the original input verbs. A prototype system was implemented and was fed with a file containing 1,050 Filipino verbs conjugated in various tenses using different types of affixes. The preliminary result showed that the accuracy rate was high in three expected outputs, i.e., tenses, infinitive forms, and affixes used