Computational Approaches to Morphology and Syntax

• Introduces techniques in natural language processing for analysing morphological and syntactic phenomena
• Demonstrates the efficiency cost of processing with rich formalisms
• Relates computational approaches to descriptive and theoretical work

Readership: Scholars and advanced students of syntax, morphology, computational linguistics and natural language processing.

Brian Roark, Oregon Health & Science University, and Richard Sproat, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

"the book does a great job explaining complicated formal and algorithmic issues in an accessible way" - Xiaofei Lu, The Linguistlist

1: Introduction and Preliminaries
Part I Computational Approaches to Morphology
2: The Formal Characterization of Morphological Operations
3: The Relevance of Computational Issues for Morphological Theory
4: A Brief History of Computational Morphology
5: Machine Learning of Morphology
Part II Computational Approaches to Syntax
6: Finite-State Approaches to Syntax
7: Basic Context-Free Approaches to Syntax
8: Enriched Context-Free Approaches to Syntax
9: Context-Sensitive Approaches to Syntax
References
Index