Formal Context and Morphological Analysis

  • Authors:
  • Anna-Maria Di Sciullo

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • CONTEXT '99 Proceedings of the Second International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Modeling and Using Context
  • Year:
  • 1999
  • Parsing Asymmetries

    NLP '00 Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Natural Language Processing

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Abstract

This paper presents a definition of context for the interpretation of word-structure that is based on the formal relation of asymmetry. We provide evidence that morpho-conceptual complexity is optimally tractable in terms of local asymmetrical relations in formal context. We present the main features of a morpho-conceptual parser implementing our proposal. We show, on the basis of the comparison with existing morphological parsers, that the accuracy of the analysis increases when the operations of the parser are oriented by the recognition of local asymmetries in formal contexts. We predict that the inclusion of modules scanning local asymmetries in information processing systems will increase their precision.