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CLEF
2009
Springer
13 years 2 months ago
Unsupervised Morphological Analysis by Formal Analogy
Abstract. While classical approaches to unsupervised morphology acquisition often rely on metrics based on information theory for identifying morphemes, we describe a novel approac...
Jean-François Lavallée, Philippe Lan...
EMNLP
2009
13 years 2 months ago
A Simple Unsupervised Learner for POS Disambiguation Rules Given Only a Minimal Lexicon
We propose a new model for unsupervised POS tagging based on linguistic distinctions between open and closed-class items. Exploiting notions from current linguistic theory, the sy...
Qiuye Zhao, Mitch Marcus
CORR
2002
Springer
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13 years 4 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Morphology without Morphemes
The first morphological learner based upon the theory of Whole Word Morphology (Ford et al., 1997) is outlined, and preliminary evaluation results are presented. The program, Whol...
Sylvain Neuvel, Sean A. Fulop
ACL
2008
13 years 6 months ago
Unsupervised Learning of Acoustic Sub-word Units
Accurate unsupervised learning of phonemes of a language directly from speech is demonstrated via an algorithm for joint unsupervised learning of the topology and parameters of a ...
Balakrishnan Varadarajan, Sanjeev Khudanpur, Emman...