Morphological Segmentation Can Improve Syllabification
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Syllabification is sometimes influenced by morphological boundaries. We show that incorporating morphological information can improve the accuracy of orthographic syllabification in English and German. Surprisingly, unsupervised segmenters, such as Morfessor, can be more useful for this purpose than the supervised ones.
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