Is language processing universal? How do the specific properties of each language influence the way it is processed? In this study, we compare the neural correlates of morphological processing in Hebrew--a Semitic language with a rich and systematic morphology, to those revealed in English--an Indo-European language with a linear morphology. Using fMRI, we show that while in the bilingual brain...

The research on modeling the Estonian morphology by finite state devices has been influenced mostly by (Koskenniemi, 1983), (Lauri Karttunen and Zaenen, 1992) and (Beesley and Karttunen, 2000). We have used lexical transducer combined with twolevel rules as a general model for describing Estonian morphology. As a novel approach we can emphasize the application of the rules to the both sides of ...

Paradigms provide an inherent organizational structure to natural language morphology. ParaMor, our minimally supervised morphology induction algorithm, retrusses the word forms of raw text corpora back onto their paradigmatic skeletons; performing on par with state-ofthe-art minimally supervised morphology induction algorithms at morphological analysis of English and German. ParaMor consists o...

We describe an enhanced version of the MORPHE tool, a morphological analyzer/generator designed to interface with a knowledge-based machine translation system. MORPHE uses a hierarchy (tree structure) to relate various morphological forms to each other based on common and distinctive features. Transformational rules are attached to the leaf nodes of the hierarchy. In generation, MORPHE takes as...