Re: [Corpora-List] Learning affix rules from wordlist

From: Leonid Kontorovich (lkontoro@andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: Mon Apr 10 2006 - 17:59:15 MET DST

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    Hello Tang, Eric and list,

    A few years ago, colleagues and I proposed a generative model for
    morphology that allows the learning of morphological rules. Please have a
    look --

    http://reports-archive.adm.cs.cmu.edu/anon/2003/CMU-CS-03-147.pdf

    I'd be thrilled to get feedback from anyone.

    Best of luck,
    -Leo

    On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Eric Atwell wrote:

    > Tang,
    >
    > My earlier posting could be what you are looking for!
    > - unsupervised learning of morphological analysers from corpus wordlists:
    >
    > Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2006 12:15:17 +0100 (BST)
    > From: Eric Atwell <eric@comp.leeds.ac.uk>
    > To: Zhu Zhang <zhuzhang@U.Arizona.EDU>
    > Cc: corpora@uib.no
    > Subject: Re: [Corpora-List] Morphological analyzer?
    >
    > The PASCAL MorphoChallenge contest results have just been published
    > http://www.cis.hut.fi/morphochallenge2005/results.shtml
    >
    > - this includes descriptions (and accuracy) for a range of morphological
    > analysers, take your pick! actually better scores was achieved by
    > combining system outputs in a majority-voting system (Combinatory Hybrid
    > Elementary
    > Analysis of Text, a carefully-chosen acronym :-)
    >
    > These are unsupervised learning systems, which have the advantage of
    > being adaptable to other languages - the contestants had to test their
    > systems on Finnish and Turkish as well as English.
    >
    > Eric Atwell, Leeds University
    >
    > PS why not come to the PASCAL Challenge Workshop in Venice, April 10-12?
    >
    >
    > On Fri, 31 Mar 2006, Zhu Zhang wrote:
    >
    >>
    >> Dear list,
    >>
    >> I'm looking for a good morphological analyzer for English that provides
    >> not only the base form of a word but also it's constituent morphemes
    >> (including prefixes and suffixes). Could you please offer any
    >> suggestions?
    >>
    >> Thanks!
    >>
    >> Zhu
    >>
    >
    >
    >
    >
    > On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, xuri tang wrote:
    >
    >> Hi, listmembers.
    >> Has anybody done any research on the automatic learning of English affix
    >> rules from a wordlist? I am trying to do that and am stuck there.
    >> Many thanks.
    >>
    >> Tang Xuri,
    >> Dpt. Foreign Languages,
    >> Wuhan University of Science and Engineering,
    >> Wuhan, P.R. China
    >>
    >>
    >> ---------------------------------
    >> 想成为冯小刚、陈凯歌、张纪中三大导演的主角吗?
    >
    > --
    > Eric Atwell, Senior Lecturer, Language research group, School of Computing,
    > Faculty of Engineering, University of Leeds, LEEDS LS2 9JT, England
    > TEL: +44-113-3435430 FAX: +44-113-3435468 http://www.comp.leeds.ac.uk/eric



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