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"The book outlines a new generalized regular rewrite rule system that uses multitape finite-state automata to cater for root-and-pattern morphology, infixation, circumfixation, and other complex operations such as the broken plural derivation problem found in Arabic and Ethiopic."--Jacket.
| Title |
Computational nonlinear morphology : with emphasis on Semitic languages / George Anton Kiraz. |
|---|---|
| Publisher |
Cambridge New York : Cambridge University Press |
| Creation Date |
2001 |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159) and indexes. |
| Content |
1.1 Linguistic Preliminaries 1 -- 1.1.1 Morphology 2 -- 1.1.2 Regular Languages 6 -- 1.1.3 Context-Free Languages 11 -- 1.2 Computational Preliminaries 15 -- 1.2.1 Computational Morphology 15 -- 1.2.2 Finite-State Automata 16 -- 1.2.3 Regular Operations and Closure Properties 19 -- 1.2.4 Finite-State Morphology 20 -- 1.3 Semitic Preliminaries 25 -- 1.3.1 The Semitic Family 25 -- 1.3.2 Semitic Morphology 27 -- 1.3.3 The Writing System 29 -- 2 Survey of Semitic Nonlinear Morphology 32 -- 2.1 The CV Approach 33 -- 2.2 The Moraic Approach 37 -- 2.3 The Affixational Approach 40 -- 2.4 The Broken Plural 41 -- 2.5 Beyond the Stem 44 -- 2.5.1 Morphotactics 44 -- 2.5.2 Phonological Effects 45 -- 3 Survey of Finite-State Morphology 47 -- 3.1 The Finite-State Approach 47 -- 3.1.1 Kay and Kaplan's Cascade Model (1983) 47 -- 3.1.2 Koskenniemi's Two-Level Model (1983) 49 -- 3.2 Developments in Two-Level Formalisms 51 -- 3.2.1 Bear's Proposals (1986, 1988) 51 -- 3.2.2 Black et al.'s Formalism (1987) 52 -- 3.2.3 Ruessink's Formalism (1989) 53 -- 3.2.4 Pulman and Hepple's Feature Representation (1993) 54 -- 3.2.5 Carter's Note on Obligatory Rules (1995) 56 -- 3.2.6 Redefining Obligatoriness: Grimley-Evans, Kiraz, and Pulman (1996) 57 -- 4 Survey of Semitic Computational Morphology 59 -- 4.1 Kay's Approach to Arabic (1987) 59 -- 4.2 Kataja and Koskenniemi's Approach to Akkadian (1988) 61 -- 4.3 Beesley's Approach to Arabic (1989, 1990, 1991) 62 -- 4.4 Kornai's Linear Coding (1991) 63 -- 4.5 Bird and Ellison's One-Level Approach (1992, 1994) 64 -- 4.6 Wiebe's Multilinear Coding (1992) 65 -- 4.7 Pulman and Hepple's Approach to Arabic (1993) 66 -- 4.8 Narayanan and Hashem's Three-Level Approach (1993) 66 -- 4.9 Beesley's Intersection Approach 67 -- 4.10 Where to Next? 68 -- 5 A Multitier Nonlinear Model 69 -- 5.2 The Lexicon Component 71 -- 5.2.1 Intuitive Description 71 -- 5.2.2 Formal Description 72 -- 5.3 The Rewrite Rules Component 73 -- 5.3.1 Intuitive Description 73 -- 5.3.2 Formal Description 75 -- 5.4 The Morphotactic Component 80 -- 5.4.1 Regular Morphotactics 80 -- 5.4.2 Context-Free Morphotactics 82 -- 5.5 Extensions to the Formalism 86 -- 5.5.1 Other Formalisms and Notations 86 -- 5.5.2 Grammatical Features 86 -- 6 Modeling Semitic Nonlinear Morphology 90 -- 6.1 The CV Approach 91 -- 6.1.2 Rewrite Rules 94 -- 6.2 The Moraic Approach 97 -- 6.2.1 Lexicon 98 -- 6.2.2 Rewrite Rules 99 -- 6.3 The Affixational Approach 102 -- 6.3.2 Rewrite Rules 104 -- 6.4 The Broken Plural 106 -- 6.4.1 Trisyllabic Plurals 107 -- 6.4.2 Bisyllabic Plurals 109 -- 6.5 Issues in Developing Semitic Systems 110 -- 6.5.1 Linear versus Nonlinear Grammars 110 -- 6.5.2 Vocalization 114 -- 6.5.3 Diachronic Exceptions 115 -- 6.5.4 Script-Related Issues 116 -- 7 Compilation into Multitape Automata 121 -- 7.1 Mathematical Preliminaries 121 -- 7.1.1 Multitape Finite-State Automata 122 -- 7.1.2 Regular Relations 123 -- 7.1.3 n-Way Operations 124 -- 7.2 Compiling the Lexicon Component 130 -- 7.3 Compiling the Rewrite Rules Component 132 -- 7.3.1 Preprocessing Rewrite Rules 133 -- 7.3.2 Compiling Rewrite Rules 136 -- 7.3.3 Incorporating Grammatical Features 141 -- 7.4 Compiling the Morphotactic Component 142 -- 7.5 Illustration from Syriac 143 -- 7.5.1 Preprocessing 144 -- 7.5.2 First Phase: Accepting Centers 144 -- 7.5.3 Second Phase: Optional Rules 145 -- 7.5.4 Third Phase: Obligatory Rules 146 -- 8.1 Beyond Semitic 149 -- 8.2 Directions for Further Research 150 -- 8.2.1 Disambiguation 151 -- 8.2.2 Semantics in Semitic Morphology 151 -- 8.2.3 Coinage and Neologism 152 -- 8.2.4 Linguistic Research 152 -- 8.3 Future of Semitic Computational Linguistics 153. |
| Series |
Studies in natural language processing |
| Extent |
xxi, 171 pages : illustrations 24 cm. |
| Language |
English |
| National Library system number |
997010478464205171 |
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