Five masked priming studies were carried in order to shed light on the processing of bound-stem words (e.g., terrin terrible). Both orthographic (e.g., termite) and unrelated (e.g., montagne ‘montain’) conditions stand as baselines for controlling morphological effects. The results of the experiments using unrelated word controls suggest that in the particular case of bound-stem words, only gen...

We use text classification to distinguish automatically between original and translated texts in Hebrew, a morphologically complex language. To this end, we design several linguistically informed feature sets that capture word-level and sub-word-level (in particular, morphological) properties of Hebrew. Such features are abstract enough to allow for the development of accurate, robust classifie...

Extracting word roots in Arabic language is very problematic due to the specific morphological and structural changes in the language. To address this problem, several techniques have been proposed. This paper continues the problem of identifying and exploiting relationship amongst Arabic letters for Arabic root extraction begun in [1]. Eight different rules that detect the root letters accordi...

In this study we introduce an information-theoretical formulation of the emergence of type- and token-based effects in morphological processing. We describe a probabilistic measure of the informational complexity of a word, its information residual, which encompasses the combined influences of the amount of information contained by the target word and the amount of information carried by its ne...

The aim of this journal article is to study recursivity in terms of morphological process feeding in the formation of Old English, thus dealing with the relationship that holds among the major lexical creation processes of affixation (suffixation and prefixation), compounding and zero-derivation. The analysis is based on the ascription of each of the predicates to one of the morphological proce...

This paper describes a model for the automated morphological analysis of Bahasa Malaysia (the Malay language) via the ATEF system, a component of the mechanical translation system known as ARIANE, which was developed by G.E.T.A. at Grenoble. This model serves two purposes, that is, to test the capability of handling Bahasa Malaysia morphological analysis using ATEF and also to provide a first w...

Turkish is an agglutinative language with complex morphological structures, therefore using only word forms is not enough for many computational tasks. In this paper we analyze the effect of morphology in a Named Entity Recognition system for Turkish. We start with the standard word-level representation and incrementally explore the effect of capturing syntactic and contextual properties of tok...

We present a direct method of construction of a morphosyntactic guesser for Polish, which is a program producing morphosyntactic descriptions for word forms unknown to the morphological analyser. The core of the method is the construction of a statistical a tergo index, in which pseudo-suffixes (endings) extracted by a statistical tree define morpho-syntactic properties of corresponding word fo...

This paper presents an alternative approach to the use of the Finite State Automata for morphology in inflectional languages. The essential feature is the use of the morphological regularities of these languages to define a fine–grained word–class–specific subclassification. Morphological analysis and generation can be performed at the level of this classification by means of simple operations ...

This paper presents a new language-independent method for finding morphological links between newly appeared words (i.e. absent from reference word lists). Using the WWW as a corpus, the Webaffix tool detects the occurrences of new derived lexemes based on a given suffix, proposes a base lexeme following a standard scheme (such as noun-verb), and then performs a compatibility test on the word p...