NaturalLanguageProcessingEnglishGrammar.pptVIP

74.406 Natural Language Processing- English Grammar - Morphology Basics of Morphology Morpheme = minimal meaning-bearing unit in a language e.g. cats, cat, -s Non-Concatenative Morphology templatic morphology: modify word templates Hebrew: lmd (study, learn) - limed (he taught) - lumad (he was taught) Concatenative Morphology word stem + prefix + suffix (+ infix + circumfix) Inflectional Morphology word stem + grammatical morpheme; same word class; cat+s Derivational Morphology word stem + grammat. morpheme; other word class; mob+b+ing Inflectional Morphology Inflectional Morphology word ste