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.Richard Sproat is Member of the Technical Staff at the AT&T Bell Laboratories.
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This review is from: Morphology and Computation (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) (Hardcover)
A superb introduction to the field of computational morphology. This reader only wishes Dr. Sproat devoted a section to his syllable weight-table methodology
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Superficial but with useful overview of two-level morphology,
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This review is from: Morphology and Computation (ACL-MIT Series in Natural Language Processing) (Hardcover)
The most convincing part of this book is the overview of two-level morphology. The overview of morphological phenomena and of other computational systems is superficial and eclectic.
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