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Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology

Project description

Objective: To design a novel finite-state computational model which will facilitate the expression of non-concatenative processes such as word formation in Semitic.
Researchers: Yael Cohen-Sygal, Dale Gerdemann and Shuly Wintner.
Status: Complete
Funding: None

Abstract

The goal of our work is to create a new computational model within the framework of finite state technology that will account for non-concatenative word formation processes in Semitic languages. It will extend and augment existing finite-state techniques, which are presently not sufficiently suitable for describing this kind of phenomena. Our purpose is to create such a new model, prove it is indeed finite-state, show how it maintains the closure properties of regular relations and use it to describe the non-concatenative phenomena of Semitic languages.

Resources

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Publications

Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Finite-State Registered Automata for Non-Concatenative Morphology. Computational Linguistics 32(1):49-82, March 2006. PDF.
Yael Cohen-Sygal and Shuly Wintner. Finite State Registered Automata and their uses in Natural languages. In Proceedings of FSMNLP 2005, Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. Helsinki, Finland, September 2005. PDF.
Yael Cohen-Sygal. Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology. MSc. Thesis, Department of Computer Science, University of Haifa. June 2004. PDF.
Yael Cohen-Sygal, Dale Gerdemann and Shuly Wintner. Computational Implementation of Non-Concatenative Morphology. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite-State Methods in Natural Language Processing, an EACL'03 Workshop, Budapest, Hungary, April 2003. PDF.

Contact

Mailing address	Yael Cohen-Sygal Department of Computer Science University of Haifa 31905 Haifa, Israel.
Phone	+972-4-8288356
Fax	+972-4-8249331
E-mail	`yaelc@cs.haifa.ac.il`

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