This paper relates to the challenge of morphological tagging and lemmatization in morphologically rich languages by example of German and Latin. We focus on the question what a practitioner can expect when using state-of-the-art solutions out of the box. Moreover, we contrast these with old(er) methods and implementations for POS tagging. We examine to what degree recent efforts in tagger devel...

It is commonly accepted that the process of pidginization leads to a loss of inflectional morphology, but this loss is often not total. Lexifier inflections instead follow a cline of reduction: full retention – partial retention – partial lexicalization – full lexicalization – full loss. This article examines the retention of inflection in 29 languages that reflect a history of pidginization in...

Amazighe inflectional morphology poses special challenges to Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. Its rich morphology and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns make NLP tools for Amazighe very challenging. In this paper we present an approach for inflectional morphological analysis and generation for Amazighe verbs. The main motivation for this work is to obtain ...

We present statistical models for morphological disambiguation in agglutinative languages, with a specific application to Turkish. Turkish presents an interesting problem for statistical models as the potential tag set size is very large because of the productive derivational morphology. We propose to handle this by breaking up the morhosyntactic tags into inflectional groups, each of which con...

This article argues that the general practice of describing interrater reliability as a single, unified concept is at best imprecise, and at worst potentially misleading. Rather than representing a single concept, different statistical methods for computing interrater reliability can be more accurately classified into one of three categories based upon the underlying goals of analysis. The thre...

The paper presents a new method for handling of morphological variation of query terms in best-match IR. The method is based on enhanced inflectional stems. Use of inflectional stems has earlier been shown to be a good retrieval method in inflected indexes in a best-match environment for a highly inflected and compound-rich language, Finnish. In this paper the earlier stem method is elaborated ...

The paper presents a new method for handling of morphological variation of query terms in best-match IR. The method is based on enhanced inflectional stems. Use of inflectional stems has earlier been shown to be a good retrieval method in inflected indexes in a best-match environment for a highly inflected and compound-rich language, Finnish. In this paper the earlier stem method is elaborated ...

Theoretical accounts of the processing of inflectional morphology make implicit, untested assumptions about the activation of verb semantics from inflected verbs. This research used semantic priming to investigate the extent to which regular and irregular past tense forms activate verb semantics, in comparison to the verb stem. The results show that past tense forms activate verb semantics to t...

“... an inflected word’s association with its morphosyntactic feature specifications is logically prior to the spelling out of its inflectional markings, since it is this very association that determines the sequence of operations by which those markings are introduced; the realizational approach thus entails a rejection of the assumption that a word’s morphosyntactic feature content is built c...