[Corpora-List] Learning affix rules from wordlist

[Leonid Kontorovich]

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 at comp.leeds.ac.uk>
> To: Zhu Zhang <zhuzhang at U.Arizona.EDU>
> Cc: corpora at 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
>> 
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