Morphological lexica are often imple- mented on top of morphological paradigms, corresponding to different ways of building the full inflection table of a word. Compu- tationally precise lexica may use hundreds of paradigms, and it can be hard for a lex- icographer to choose among them. To au- tomate this task, this paper introduces the notion of a smart paradigm. It is a meta- paradigm, which inspects the base form and tries to infer which low-level paradigm ap- plies. If the result is uncertain, more forms are given for discrimination. The number of forms needed in average is a measure of predictability of an inflection system. The overall complexity of the system also has to take into account the code size of the paradigms definition itself. This pa- per evaluates the smart paradigms im...

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