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Morphological Segmentation involves decomposing words into morphemes, the smallest meaning-bearing units of language. This is an important NLP task for morphologically-rich agglutinative languages such as the Southern African Nguni language…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-04-05 Tumi Moeng , Sheldon Reay , Aaron Daniels , Jan Buys

Much like sentences are composed of words, words themselves are composed of smaller units. For example, the English word questionably can be analyzed as question+able+ly. However, this structural decomposition of the word does not directly…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2018-11-13 Ryan Cotterell , Hinrich Schütze

The ambiguities introduced by the recombination of morphemes constructing several possible inflections for a word makes the prediction of syntactic traits in Morphologically Rich Languages (MRLs) a notoriously complicated task. We propose…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-09-18 Saurav Jha , Akhilesh Sudhakar , Anil Kumar Singh

Morphological Analysis is an important branch of linguistics for any Natural Language Processing Technology. Morphology studies the word structure and formation of word of a language. In current scenario of NLP research, morphological…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-03-16 Mirzanur Rahman , Shikhar Kumar Sarma

We introduce an extensive dataset for multilingual probing of morphological information in language models (247 tasks across 42 languages from 10 families), each consisting of a sentence with a target word and a morphological tag as the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-11-20 Judit Acs , Endre Hamerlik , Roy Schwartz , Noah A. Smith , Andras Kornai

Stemming is a process that can be utilized to trim inflected words to stem or root form. It is useful for enhancing the retrieval effectiveness, especially for text search in order to solve the mismatch problems. Previous research on Bangla…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2019-12-30 Rabeya Sadia , Md Ataur Rahman , Md Hanif Seddiqui

Compounding is a highly productive word-formation process in some languages that is often problematic for natural language processing applications. In this paper, we investigate whether distributional semantics in the form of word…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2015-09-16 Joachim Daiber , Lautaro Quiroz , Roger Wechsler , Stella Frank

This paper presents a scalable method for integrating compositional morphological representations into a vector-based probabilistic language model. Our approach is evaluated in the context of log-bilinear language models, rendered suitably…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2014-05-19 Jan A. Botha , Phil Blunsom

This paper addresses issues in part of speech disambiguation using finite-state transducers and presents two main contributions to the field. One of them is the use of finite-state machines for part of speech tagging. Linguistic and…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Evelyne Tzoukermann , Dragomir R. Radev

Language models for agglutinative languages have always been hindered in past due to myriad of agglutinations possible to any given word through various affixes. We propose a method to diminish the problem of out-of-vocabulary words by…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-08-21 Seunghak Yu , Nilesh Kulkarni , Haejun Lee , Jihie Kim

The ability of learning disentangled representations represents a major step for interpretable NLP systems as it allows latent linguistic features to be controlled. Most approaches to disentanglement rely on continuous variables, both for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-16 Giangiacomo Mercatali , André Freitas

We present labeled morphological segmentation, an alternative view of morphological processing that unifies several tasks. From an annotation standpoint, we additionally introduce a new hierarchy of morphotactic tagsets. Finally, we develop…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-16 Ryan Cotterell , Thomas Müller , Alexander Fraser , Hinrich Schütze

This research introduces a novel psychometric method for analyzing textual data using large language models. By leveraging contextual embeddings to create contextual scores, we transform textual data into response data suitable for…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-12 Jinsong Chen

We describe an automated method for identifying classes of morphologically related words in an on-line dictionary, and for linking individual senses in the derived form to one or more senses in the base form by means of morphological…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Joseph Pentheroudakis , Lucy Vanderwende , Microsoft Corporation

We describe our participation in the Word Segmentation and Morphological Parsing (WSMP) for Sanskrit hackathon. We approach the word segmentation task as a sequence labelling task by predicting edit operations from which segmentations are…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Jingwen Li , Leander Girrbach

We present a method for discovering morphological features in low-resource Bantu languages by combining cross-lingual transfer learning with unsupervised clustering. Applied to Giriama (nyf), a language with only 91 labeled paradigms, our…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-27 Hillary Mutisya , John Mugane

Arabic morphology encapsulates many valuable features such as word root. Arabic roots are being utilized for many tasks; the process of extracting a word root is referred to as stemming. Stemming is an essential part of most Natural…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2016-11-02 Mahmoud El-Defrawy , Yasser El-Sonbaty , Nahla A. Belal

Feature attribution methods, such as SHAP and LIME, explain machine learning model predictions by quantifying the influence of each input component. When applying feature attributions to explain language models, a basic question is defining…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-09-26 Alan Boyle , Furui Cheng , Vilém Zouhar , Mennatallah El-Assady

Traditional natural language parsers are based on rewrite rule systems developed in an arduous, time-consuming manner by grammarians. A majority of the grammarian's efforts are devoted to the disambiguation process, first hypothesizing…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2016-08-31 David M. Magerman

We generalized a voice morphing algorithm capable of handling temporally variable, multiple-attributes, and multiple instances. The generalized morphing provides a new strategy for investigating speech diversity. However, excessive…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-04-23 Hideki Kawahara , Masanori Morise