Segmentation and Morphology

• Published in: The Handbook of Computational Linguistics and Natural Language Processing pp. 364 - 393
• Main Author: Goldsmith, John A
• Format: Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Wiley‐Blackwell 16.07.2010
• Subjects: field of morphology, study of what a word is in natural languages; hierarchical Bayesian models; inflectional stems, process of compounding as in watchdog or eyepatch; segmentation and morphology; static and dynamic metaphors; syntax, domain of language analysis ‐ for sentence formation analysis; trawling for chunks; two problems of word segmentation; word segmentation ‐ successes and failures
• ISBN: 1405155817; 9781405155816
• DOI: 10.1002/9781444324044.ch14

This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Unsupervised Learning of Words Unsupervised Learning of Morphology Implementing Computational Morphologies Conclusions Acknowledgment Notes