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| Title | A Crash Test with Linguistica in Modern Greek: The Case of Derivational Affixes and Bound Stems |
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| Authors | Athanasios Karasimos and Evanthia Petropoulou |
| Abstract | This paper attempts to participate in the ongoing discussion in search of asuitable model for the computational treatment of Greek morphology. Focusing onthe unsupervised morphology learning technique, and particularly on the modelof Linguistica by Goldsmith (2001), we attempt a computational treatment ofspecific word formation phenomena in Modern Greek (MG), such as suffixation andcompounding with bound stems, through the use of various corpora. The inabilityof the system to accept any morphological rule as input, hence the term'unsupervised', interferes to a great extent with its efficiency in parsing,especially in languages with rich morphology, such as MG, among others.Specifically, neither the rich allomorphy, nor the complex combinability ofmorphemes in MG appear to be treated efficiently through this technique,resulting in low scores of proper word segmentation (22% in inflectionalsuffixes and 13% in derivational ones), as well as the recognition of falsemorphemes. |
| Language | Morphology |
| Topics | Tools, systems, applications, Parsing, Morphology |
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A Crash Test with Linguistica in Modern Greek: The Case of Derivational Affixes and Bound Stems |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{KARASIMOS10.841, author = {Athanasios Karasimos and Evanthia Petropoulou}, title = {A Crash Test with Linguistica in Modern Greek: The Case of Derivational Affixes and Bound Stems}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Seventh conference on International Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'10)}, year = {2010}, month = {may}, date = {19-21}, address = {Valletta, Malta}, editor = {Nicoletta Calzolari (Conference Chair), Khalid Choukri, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Jan Odjik, Stelios Piperidis, Mike Rosner, Daniel Tapias}, publisher = {European Language Resources Association (ELRA)}, isbn = {2-9517408-6-7}, language = {english} } |