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ISBN: | 0585038341 9780585038346 9780262193146 0262193140 0262284170 9780262284172 0262527022 9780262527026
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Notes: | "Richard Sproat is Member of the Technical Staff at the AT & T Bell Laboratories." "A Bradford book." Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-285) and index. English. Print version record.
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Summary: | "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."
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Other form: | Print version: Sproat, Richard William. Morphology and computation. Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1992 0262193140
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