Description
| 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."
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| Item Description: | "Richard Sproat is Member of the Technical Staff at the AT & T Bell Laboratories."
"A Bradford book." |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 295 pages) : illustrations |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index. |
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| ISBN: | 0585038341
9780585038346
9780262193146
0262193140
0262284170
9780262284172
0262527022
9780262527026 |
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| DOI: | 10.7551/mitpress/4775.001.0001 |
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| Language: | English. |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
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