Morphology, analogy and machine translation
The following straightforward questions: ~What domain of linguistic knowledge is dealt with in this work?~, ~How are these phenomena approached from a formal standpoint?~ and ~What for?~. They thus define the three main axes around which the present interdisciplinary investigation revolves: main topic, methodology and intended purpose or range of application. Topic apart, methodology and purpose are strongly interconnected, in much the same way as the form of an object is related to its function. So, the present research is orientated towards the representation of morphological phenomena as rather abstract formal linguistic objects, that are expected to function as a kind of exchange format aimed at interfacing two or more languages in a ~transfer-based~ Machine Translation System. As to the nature and content of these representations, many alternative proposals, put forward in both theoretical and computational linguistic circles, are carefully considered and extensively discussed. In particular, I take advantage of insights coming from ~Word and Paradigm Morphology~ and ~Functional Grammar~. In the end, an original computational framework is presented in somewhat detail, that crucially hinges on the notion
Pirrelli, Vito
Linguistics
Morphology, analogy and machine translation. The following straightforward questions: ~What domain of linguistic knowledge is dealt with in this work?~, ~How are these phenomena approached from a formal standpoint?~ and ~What for?~. They thus define the three main axes around which the present interdisciplinary investigation revolves: main topic, methodology and intended purpose or range of application. Topic apart, methodology and purpose are strongly interconnected, in much the same way as the form of an object is related to its function. So, the present research is orientated towards the representation of morphological phenomena as rather abstract formal linguistic objects, that are expected to function as a kind of exchange format aimed at interfacing two or more languages in a ~transfer-based~ Machine Translation System. As to the nature and content of these representations, many alternative proposals, put forward in both theoretical and computational linguistic circles, are carefully considered and extensively discussed. In particular, I take advantage of insights coming from ~Word and Paradigm Morphology~ and ~Functional Grammar~. In the end, an original computational framework is presented in somewhat detail, that crucially hinges on the notion
morphology analogy machine_translation follow straightforward question_what domain linguistic_knowledge dealt work how phenomena approach formal standpoint what thus define three_main around present interdisciplinary investigation main_topic intend purpose range application topic apart purpose strongly interconnect much way form object relate function present orientate towards representation morphological phenomenon rather_abstract formal_linguistic object expect function kind exchange format aim two_language transfer based machine_translation system nature content representation many alternative proposal put_forward theoretical computational linguistic circle carefully consider extensively discuss particular take_advantage insight come word paradigm morphology functional grammar end original computational framework present somewhat detail crucially hinge notion