Given that this special issue is devoted to the acquisition and processing of inflectional morphology by second language (L2) learners, the question in the title may appear redundant. However, recent research on first language (L1) and L2 morphological processing has challenged basic assumptions about the status of inflectional morphology in linguistic processing that had long been taken for gr...

Swedish morphology differs significantly from English in several ways. This is something which makes natural language processing based on the English language not always applicable for Swedish material. One area where there is a difference is compounding. The word-forming process of compounding is very productive in Swedish. The compounds are mostly written as one word, without the segmentation...

1 Introduction Applicative constructions, best known from languages with overt applicative morphology such as Kinyarwanda in (1) have traditionally been understood to add a core argument to the basic valence of the verb.

Syncretism is the area of the morphologysyntax interface where morphology fails the syntax. Inadequate treatment in the design of a morphological analyzer can lead to unbalanced performance of the analyzer either at generation, or at analysis. Furthermore, adequate and consistent treatment of syncretism is needed if the analyzer is to be used for language modeling, especially modeling of the sy...

In image compression, object-based approaches are adapted to high compression rates, since they take into account the geometry of the objects and the human eye characteristics. Mathematical Morphology, dealing with geometrical features is a well suited technique for segmentation purposes. This paper presents a method to segment image sequences, first step of an object-oriented compression syste...

In this our first participation in CLEF, we have applied Natural Language Processing techniques for single word and multi-word term conflation. We have tested several approaches at different levels of text processing in our experiments: firstly, we have lemmatized the text to avoid inflectional variation; secondly, we have expanded the queries through synonyms according to a fixed threshold of ...

We present a connectionist model of a general system for producing inflected words. The Multiple Inflection Generator (MIG) combines elements of several previous models (e.g., multiple inflections for a grammatical class: Hoeffner & McClelland, 1993; lexical-semantic input: Joanisse & Seidenberg, 1999; multiple grammatical classes: Plunkett & Juola, 1999). MIG assumes that the goal of this comp...

In the field of Human Language Technology (HLT), the existence of linguistically interpreted real-world texts provides the license necessary for a given language to enter the area of high-tech applications. The significance of BulTreeBank is the granting of an HLT license to a “less processed” language like Bulgarian which, until recently, has been formally modelled and processed mainly on the ...