Probabilistic hierarchical clustering of morphological paradigms

  • Authors:
  • Burcu Can;Suresh Manandhar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of York Heslington, York, UK;University of York Heslington, York, UK

  • Venue:
  • EACL '12 Proceedings of the 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We propose a novel method for learning morphological paradigms that are structured within a hierarchy. The hierarchical structuring of paradigms groups morphologically similar words close to each other in a tree structure. This allows detecting morphological similarities easily leading to improved morphological segmentation. Our evaluation using (Kurimo et al., 2011a; Kurimo et al., 2011b) dataset shows that our method performs competitively when compared with current state-of-art systems.