Morfette: A tool for supervised learning of morphology

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Abstract

Morfette is a tool for supervised learning of inflectional morphology. Given a corpus of sentences annotated with lemmas and morphological labels, and optionally a lexicon, morfette learns how to morphologically analyse new sentences.

In the learning stage Morfette fits two separate models: one for morphological tagging and one for lemmatization. The predictions of the models are combined dynamically and produce a globally plausible sequence of morphological-tag - lemma pairs for a sentence.

In Morfette lemmatization is cast as a classification task where a a lemmatization class corresponds to the specification of the edit operations which are needed to transform the inflected word form into the corresponding lemma.
Original languageDutch
Media of outputOnline
Publication statusPublished - 2010
Externally publishedYes
  • Learning morphology with Morfette

    Chrupala, G. A., Dinu, G. & van Genabith, J., 2008, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08).

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