Morphology and computation / Richard Sproat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sproat, Richard William.

Series:

ACL-MIT Press series in natural-language processing.

ACL-MIT Press series in natural language processing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology.

Grammar, Comparative and general.

Grammar, Comparative and general--Morphology--Data processing.

Physical Description:

1 PDF (xv, 295 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 take 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."

Contents:

1. Applications of computational morphology

2. The nature of morphology

3. Computational morphology

4. Some peripheral issues.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-285) and index.

"Richard Sproat is Member of the Technical Staff at the AT & T Bell Laboratories."

"A Bradford book."

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

0-262-52702-2

0-585-03834-1

OCLC:

43474647