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A growing body of work in Optimality Theory reveals the privileged status of roots compared to affixes in natural languages. This has lead to the postulation of distinct faithfulness constraints for roots and affixes, and most researchers agree that the ranking FAITHROOT >> FAITHAFFIX universally holds. In this paper, I argue that this approach is further supported by the behavior of fusion fou...

Corresponding Author: Mohammed M. Abu Shquier Department of Information Science, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, KSA Email: [email protected] Abstract: Arabic stemming is a technique to find the stem or lexical root for Arabic words through the process of eliminating affixes (preffixes, infixes and suffixes) attached to their roots. Several approaches have been implemented to generate the stem of A...

Computational morphology is an important part of natural language processing. Finite-state techniques have been applied successfully in computational phonology and morphology to many of the world’s major languages. Celtic languages such as Modern Irish present challenging morphological features that to date have not been addressed using finite-state technology. This paper presents a finite-stat...

Orthographic learning refers to the acquisition of knowledge about specific spelling patterns forming words and about general biases and constraints on letter sequences. It is thought to occur by strengthening simultaneously activated visual and phonological representations during reading. Here we demonstrate that a visual perceptual learning procedure that leaves no time for articulation can r...

The status of plan adaptation has been somewhat controversial in the AI-planning literature, due to a conflict between worst-case complexity analyses (which have led to pessimistic conclusions about the utility of plan adaptation) and empirical results (in which plan adaptation has performed significantly better than planning from scratch). This paper provides a step toward the resolution of th...

Any algorithmic study of written English must sooner or later face the problem of unscrambling English affixes. The role of affixes is crucial in the study of word-breaking practice. In the automatic determination of the parts of speech (a central feature of automatic syntactic analysis), the suppressing action of affixes must be understood in detail. In the determination of English citation fo...

In this paper we propose a new analysis for Sorani Kurdish passive formation. We argue that passivisation in Sorani Kurdish actually is a derivational process and propose four arguments supporting this claim. Within lexicalist approaches to morphosyntax, the question whether to treat passivisation as an inflectional or a derivational process has often been raised. The traditional treatment of p...