Morphological Analysis
definition: The technologies for or the process of tracing the inflectional, derivational, and compounding processes in the formation of a given word in order to determine properties such as stem form, part-of-speech and inflectional information. As a crucial preprocessing step, morphological analysis is used in virtually all fields of natural language processing.
See also the corresponding HLT Survey chapter: http://www.lt-world.org/hlt_survey/ltw-chapter3-2.pdf
related project(s):
- Multilingual Text Tools and Corpora (Multext)
related organisation(s):
- Xerox-Parc Content Analysis
- Dalle Molle Institute for Semantic and Cognitive Studies (ISSCO)
- Computational Linguistics Laboratory
- Language Technology Lab (LT Lab)
related person(s):
- Günter Neumann
- Dominique Petitpierre
- Yuji Matsumoto
- Kimmo Koskenniemi
- Lauri Karttunen
related system(s) / resource(s):
- ChaSen
- Mmorph
- PC-KIMMO
- Xerox Morphologien
- GERTWOL
- Machinese Phrase Tagger
- WMTrans Products
related publication(s):
Summer Institute of Linguistics, Dallas, Texas. 1990.PC-KIMMO: A Two-level Processor for Morphological Analysis.
E. L. Antworth.
MMORPH -- The Multext Morphology Program.
D. Petitpierre and G. Russell. 1995.