State of the Art in Computational Morphology

1. Front Matter

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2. Using Ranked Semirings for Representing Morphology Automata

   • Thomas Hanneforth

   Pages 1-9

3. JSLIM – Computational Morphology in the Framework of the SLIM Theory of Language

   • Johannes Handl, Besim Kabashi, Thomas Proisl, Carsten Weber

   Pages 10-27

4. HFST Tools for Morphology – An Efficient Open-Source Package for Construction of Morphological Analyzers

   • Krister Lindén, Miikka Silfverberg, Tommi Pirinen

   Pages 28-47

5. fsm2 – A Scripting Language for Creating Weighted Finite-State Morphologies

   • Thomas Hanneforth

   Pages 48-63

6. Morphisto: Service-Oriented Open Source Morphology for German

   • Andrea Zielinski, Christian Simon, Tilman Wittl

   Pages 64-75

7. Morphosyntactic and Semantic Analysis of Text: The MPRO Tagging Procedure

   • Heinz Dieter Maas, Christoph Rösener, Axel Theofilidis

   Pages 76-87

8. Word Manager

   • Pius ten Hacken

   Pages 88-107

9. Morphological Analysis Using Linguistically Motivated Decomposition of Unknown Words

   • Stephan Bopp, Sandro Pedrazzini

   Pages 108-117

10. Corpus-Based Lexeme Ranking for Morphological Guessers

    • Krister Lindén, Jussi Tuovila

    Pages 118-135

11. Back Matter

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From the point of view of computational linguistics, morphological resources are the basis for all higher-level applications. This is especially true for languages with a rich morphology, such as German or Finnish. A morphology component should thus be capable of analyzing single word forms as well as whole corpora. For many practical applications, not only morphological analysis, but also generation is required, i.e., the production of surfaces corresponding to speci?c categories. Apart from uses in computational linguistics, there are also numerous practical - plications that either require morphological analysis and generation or that can greatly bene?t from it, for example, in text processing, user interfaces, or information - trieval. These applications have speci?c requirements for morphological components, including requirements from software engineering, such as programming interfaces or robustness. In 1994, the First Morpholympics took place at the University of Erlangen- Nuremberg, a competition between several systems for the analysis and generation of German word forms. Eight systems participated in the First Morpholympics; the conference proceedings [1] thus give a very good overview of the state of the art in computational morphologyfor German as of 1994.

• HFST tools
• JSLIM
• MPRO tagging
• Morphisto
• Open Source
• automata
• formal language
• grammar
• morpho challange
• morphological analysis
• morphology automata
• morpholympics
• morphosyntactics
• scripting
• semantic analysis

• University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  Cerstin Mahlow, Michael Piotrowski