Morphology and Computation (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) (ACL-MIT PRESS SERIES IN NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING) - Hardcover

Sproat, Richard William

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0262193140 ISBN 13: 9780262193146

Publisher: Bradford Books, 1992

Synopsis

This book provides the first broad yet thorough coverage of issues in morphological theory. It includes a wide array of techniques and systems in computational morphology (including discussion of their limitations), and describes some unusual applications.Sproat motivates the study of computational morphology by arguing that a computational natural language system, such as a parser or a generator, must incorporate a model of morphology. He discusses a range of applications for programs with knowledge of morphology, some of which are not generally found in the literature. Sproat then provides an overview of some of the basic descriptive facts about morphology and issues in theoretical morphology and (lexical) phonology, as well as psycholinguistic evidence for human processing of morphological structure. He takes up the basic techniques that have been proposed for doing morphological processing and discusses at length various systems (such as DECOMP and KIMMO) that incorporate part or all of those techniques, pointing out the inadequacies of such systems from both a descriptive and a computational point of view. He concludes by touching on interesting peripheral areas such as the analysis of complex nominals in English, and on the main contributions of Rumelhart and McClelland's connectionism to the computational analysis of words.

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About the Author

Richard Sproat is Professor of Biomedical Computer Science in the Department of Science & Engineering (DSE) at the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) School of Medicine.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bradford Books
• Publication date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0262193140
• ISBN 13: 9780262193146
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 313