An Application: Morphology

Abstract:
Morphology is about the inner structure of words. It is interested in what are the smallest units in word that bear some meaning and how can they be combined to form words.

Morphology
Introduction of morphology.

Morphological Parsing
The goal of morphological parsing is to find out what morphemes a given word is built from.

From the Surface to the Intermediate Form
To do morphological parsing this transducer has to map from the surface form to the intermediate form.

From the Intermediate Form to the Morphological Structure
Map the intermediate form that we produced in the previous section to the underlying form.

Combining the two Transducers
The second transducer runs on the output of the first one.

Putting it in Prolog
Translate the transducer specifications into the Prolog format that we used in the last lecture.

An Application: Morphology

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