We propose a new method to construct a word list for rule induction from Japanese patent documents. For word segmentation in Japanese, statistical morphological analyzers have been used in many applications. However, the output of these morphological analyzers presents defects when analyzing unknown words, specifically words that contain Kanji/Katakana morphemes. Some words are overly segmented...

A WORD GRAMMAR OF TURKISH WITH MORPHOPHONEMIC RULES  Oztaner, Serdar Murat M.S., Department of Computer Engineering Supervisor: Assist. Prof. Dr. Cem Boz sahin January 1996, 128 pages This thesis is about the computational morphological analysis and generation of Turkish word forms. Turkish morphological description is encoded using the two-level morphological model. This description consists ...

This paper presents Japanese morphological analysis based on conditional random fields (CRFs). Previous work in CRFs assumed that observation sequence (word) boundaries were fixed. However, word boundaries are not clear in Japanese, and hence a straightforward application of CRFs is not possible. We show how CRFs can be applied to situations where word boundary ambiguity exists. CRFs offer a so...

In this paper, we present an empirical study that utilizes morph-syntactical information to improve translation quality. With three kinds of language pairs matched according to morph-syntactical similarity or difference, we investigate the effects of various morpho-syntactical information, such as base form, part-of-speech, and the relative positional information of a word in a statistical mach...

Converging evidence from behavioral masked priming (Rastle & Davis, 2008), EEG masked priming (Morris, Frank, Grainger, & Holcomb, 2007) and single word MEG (Zweig & Pylkkänen, 2008) experiments has provided robust support for a model of lexical processing which includes an early, automatic, visual word form based stage of morphological parsing that applies to all derivationally affixed words. ...

This paper discusses such issues as the format under which lexical units are stored in memory, the way in which inflection and derivation interact, and the definition of morphological units, such as stem, root, word form, etc. More largely, two competing models of morphological competence, a “units-plusrules” model and a global model based on analogy, are discussed. The main focus is on nouns a...

Morphological analysis and disambiguation are crucial stages in a variety of natural language processing applications such as machine translation, especially when languages with complex morphology are concerned such as Arabic. Arabic is a highly flexional language, in that, the same root can lead to various forms according to its context. In this paper, we present a system which disambiguates t...

This eye-tracking study explores visual recognition of Dutch suffixed words (e.g., plaats+ing ‘‘placing”) embedded in sentential contexts, and provides new evidence on the interplay between storage and computation in morphological processing. We show that suffix length crucially moderates the use of morphological properties. In words with shorter suffixes, we observe a stronger effect of full-f...

Multi-word expressions (MWEs) are difficult to define and also difficult to annotate. Some of them cause serious errors in the traditional annotation pipeline tokenization – morphological analysis – morphological disambiguation. Many cases of incorrect annotation in Czech corpora are known. To narrow the research topic, we focus only in fixed MWEs – those with fixed word order and no ellidable ...

This paper describes a morphological component in a speech recognition system for German dealing with the construction of complex word form hypotheses out of a lattice of simplex forms. Our example is the recognition of compounds from their individual components. Evaluation results are presented for speech recognition with and without morphologically based word recognition. Dieser Aufsatz besch...