Arabic language is a morphologically complex language. Affixes and clitics are regularly attached to stems which make direct comparison between words not practical. In this paper we propose a new automatic headline generation technique that utilizes character cross-correlation to extract best headlines and to overcome the Arabic language complex morphology. The system that uses character cross-...

The Morphemes of the Manipuri word are the real bottleneck for any of the Manipuri Natural Language Processing (NLP) works. It is one of the Indian Scheduled Language with less advancement so far in terms of NLP applications. This is because the nature of the language is highly agglutinative. Segmentation of a word and identifying the morphemes becomes necessary before proceeding for any of the...

Korean is a morphologically rich language in which grammatical functions are marked by inflections and affixes, and they can indicate grammatical relations such as subject, object, predicate, etc. A Korean sentence could be thought as a sequence of eojeols. An eojeol is a word or its variant word form agglutinated with grammatical affixes, and eojeols are separated by white space as in English ...

There are several accounts of why some individuals with post-stroke aphasia experience difficulty in producing morphologically complex verbs. Although a majority of these individuals also produce syntactically flawed utterances, at least two accounts focus on word-level encoding operations. One account proposes a difficulty with rule-governed affixation, predicting that verbs without affixes (s...

Earlier analyses of rime change (Lin 1989, 1993) posit subsegmental affixes such as featural or prosodic affixes (e.g. [+back, +round] or a mora/default vowel) and templatic output restrictions (e.g. an open syllable). In some cases of rime change, however, there are puzzling unexpected alternations or exceptions that are difficult to explain and analyze. This study examines Hong’an diminutive ...

Malagasy, spoken throughout Madagascar, is a Western Austronesian language with a characteristically rich voice system. In this paper we show first how to derive and compositionally interpret nuclear clauses built from verbs in different voices. They are directly projected from verbal affixes, not derived by A or A′ movement. Theta role assignment follows explicitly from semantic interpretation...

We propo se a gener ativ e stat istical model for Mongo lian lexical ana lysis. This model describes the lex ical analysis r esult as a dir ected g raph, wher e t he nodes r epr esent the stems, affixes and their tag s, while the edges represent the t ransitio n o r generation relationships between nodes. Especially in this wo rk, we adopt three kinds o f transitio n o r g eneration probabiliti...

This article critically analyses the Longman Defining Vocabulary (LDV) in relation to its size, range and frequency, senses, parts of speech, affixes, and multiword expressions. The recent versions of the LDV contain a relatively fixed number of items. Over 85% of those items were found to be highly frequent, and for the defining purpose, genus terms, grammatical terms, etc. have also been incl...

A central question for theories of inflected word processing is to determine under what circumstances compositional procedures apply. Some accounts (e.g., the dual-mechanism model; Clahsen, 1999 ) propose that compositional processes only apply to verbs that take productive affixes. For all other verbs, inflected forms are assumed to be stored in the lexicon in a nondecomposed manner. This acco...