Allomorfessor: Towards Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis (2009)
AUTHORS:
Kohonen Oskar,
Virpioja Sami
,
Klami Mikaela
PDF:
pdf/clefpostproc_2009.pdf
@incollection{ okohonen+virpioja+klami_2009, author = "Kohonen, Oskar and Virpioja, Sami and Klami, Mikaela", publisher = "Springer", responsibleperson = "Kohonen,Oskar", title = "Allomorfessor: Towards Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis", series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science", booktitle = "Evaluating Systems for Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access: 9th Workshop of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum, CLEF 2008 Aarhus, Denmark, September 17-19, 2008, Revised Selected Papers", abstract = "We extend the unsupervised morpheme segmentation method Morfessor Baseline to account for the linguistic phenomenon of allo- morphy, where one morpheme has several different surface forms. Our method discovers common base forms for allomorphs from an unanno- tated corpus. We evaluate the method by participating in the Morpho Challenge 2008 competition 1, where inferred analyses are compared against a linguistic gold standard. While our competition entry achieves high precision, but low recall, and therefore low F-measure scores, we show that a small model change gives state-of-the-art results.", volume = "5706", flags = "public AIRC COG", year = "2009", pdf = "clefpostproc_2009.pdf", impactfactor = "A4", pages = "975--982" }