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"abstract": "In this paper a morphological component with a limited capability to automatically interpret (and generate) derived words is presented. The system combines an extended two-level morphology [Trost, 1991a; Trost, 1991b] with a feature-based word grammar building on a hierarchical lexicon. Polymorphemic stems not explicitly stored in the lexicon are given a compositional interpretation. That way the system allows to minimize redundancy in the lexicon because derived words that are transparent need not to be stored explicitly. Also, words formed ad-hoc can be recognized correctly. The system is implemented in CommonLisp and has been tested on examples from German derivation.",
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"text": "In this paper a morphological component with a limited capability to automatically interpret (and generate) derived words is presented. The system combines an extended two-level morphology [Trost, 1991a; Trost, 1991b] with a feature-based word grammar building on a hierarchical lexicon. Polymorphemic stems not explicitly stored in the lexicon are given a compositional interpretation. That way the system allows to minimize redundancy in the lexicon because derived words that are transparent need not to be stored explicitly. Also, words formed ad-hoc can be recognized correctly. The system is implemented in CommonLisp and has been tested on examples from German derivation.",
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"text": "This paper is about words. Since word is a rather fuzzy term we will first try to make clear what word means in the context of this paper. Following [di Sciullo and Williams, 1989] we discriminate two senses. One is the morphological word which is built from morphs according to the rules of morphology. The other is the syntactic word which is the atomic entity from which sentences are built according to the rules of syntax. *Work on this project was partially sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research and the \"Fonds zur FSrderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung\" grant no.P7986-PHY. I would also like to thank John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter and Wolfgang Heinz for comments on earlier versions of this paper. These two views support two different sets of information which are to be kept separate but which are not disjunctive. The syntactical word carries information about category, valency and semantics, information that is important for the interpretation of a word in the context of the sentence. It also carries information like case, number, gender and person. The former information is basically the same for all different surface forms of the syntactic word 1 the latter is conveyed by the different surface forms produced by the inflectional paradigm and is therefore shared with the morphological word.",
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"text": "Besides this shared information the morphological word carries information about the inflectional paradigm, the stem, and the way it is internally structured. In our view the lexicon should be a mediator between these two views of word.",
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"text": "Traditionally, the lexicon in natural language processing (NLP) systems is viewed as a finite collection of syntactic words. Words have stored with them their syntactic and semantic information. In the most simple case the lexicon contains an entry for every different word form. For highly inflecting (or agglutinating) languages this approach is not feasible for realistic vocabulary sizes. Instead, morphological components are used to map between the different surface forms of a word and its canonical form stored in the lexicon. We will call this canonical form and the information associated with it lezeme.",
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"text": "There are problems with such a static view of the lexicon. In the open word classes our vocabulary is potentially infinite. Making use of derivation and compounding speakers (or writers) can and do always create new words. A majority of these words IFor some forms like the passive PPP some authors assume different syntactic features. Nevertheless they are derived regularly, e.g., by lexical rules.",
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"text": "are invented on the spot and may never be used again. Skimming through real texts one will always find such ad-hoc formed words not to be found in any lexicon that are nevertheless readily understood by any competent reader. A realistic NLP system should therefore have means to cope with ad-hoc word formation.",
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"text": "Efficiency considerations also support the idea of extending morphological components to treat derivation. Because of the regularities found in derivation a lexicon purely based on words will be highly redundant and wasting space. On the other hand a large percentage of lexicalized derived words (and compounds) is no longer transparent syntactically and/or semantically and has to be treated like a monomorphemic lexeme. What we do need then is a system that is flexible enough to allow for both a compositional and an idiosyncratic reading of polymorphemic stems.",
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"text": "The system described in this paper is a combination of a feature-based hierarchical lexicon and word grammar with an extended two-level morphology. Before desribing the system in more detail we will shortly discuss these two strands of research.",
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"text": "Research directed at reducing redundancy in the lexicon has come up with the idea of organizing the information hierarchically making use of inheritance (see, e.g. [Daelemans et al., 1992; Russell et al., 1992] ).",
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"text": "Various formalisms supporting inheritance have been proposed that can be classified into two major approaches. One uses defaults, i.e., inherited data may be overwritten by more specific ones. The default mechanism handles exceptions which are an inherent phenomenon of the lexicon. A well-known formalism following this approach is DATR [Evans and Gazdar, 1989] .",
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"text": "The major advantage of defaults is the rather natural hierarchy formation it supports where classes can be organized in a tree instead of a multipleinheritance hierarchy. Drawbacks are that defaults are computationally costly and one needs an interface to the sentence grammar which is usually written in default-free feature descriptions.",
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"text": "Although the term default is taken from knowledge representation one should be aware of the quite different usage. In knowledge representation defaults are used to describe uncertain facts which may or may not become explicitly known later on. 2 Exceptions in the lexicon are of a different nature because they form an a priori known set. For any word it is 2An example for the use of defaults in knowledge representation is an inference rule like Birds typically can fly.",
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"text": "In the absence of more detailed knowledge this allows me to conclude that Tweety which I only know to be a bird can fly. Should I later on get the additional information that Tweety is a penguin I must revoke that conclusion. known whether it is regular or an exception. 3 The only motivation to use defaults in the lexicon is that they allow for a more concise and natural representation.",
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"text": "The alternative approach organizes classes in a multiple-inheritance hierarchy without defaults. This means that lexical items can be described as standard feature terms organized in a type hierarchy (see, e.g., [Smolka, 1988; Carpenter el al., 1991] ).",
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"text": "The advantages are clear. There is no need for an interface to the grammar and computational complexity is lower.",
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"text": "At the moment it is an open question which of the two anppproaches is the more appropriate. In our system we decided against introducing a new formalism. Most current natural language systems are based on feature formalisms and we see no obvious reason why the lexicon should not be feature-based (see also [Nerbonne, 1992] ).",
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"text": "While inheritance lexica--concerned with the syntactic word--have mainly been used to express generalizations over classes of words the idea can also be used for the explicit representation of derivation. In [Nerbonne, 1992] we find such a proposal. What the proposal shares with most of the other schemes is that not much consideration is given to morphophonology. The problem is acknowledged by some authors by using a function morphologically append instead of pure concatenation of morphs but it remains unclear how this function should be implemented.",
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"text": "The approach presented here follows this line of research in complementing an extended two-level morphology with a hierarchical lexicon that contains as entries not only words but also morphs. This way morphophonology can be treated in a principled way while retaining the advantages of hierarchical lexica.",
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"text": "For dealing with a compositional syntax and semantics of derivatives one needs a component that is capable of constructing arbitrary words from a finite set of morphs according to morphotactic rules. Very successful in the domain of morphological analysis/generation are finite-state approaches, notably two-level morphology [Koskenniemi, 1984] . Twolevel morphology deals with two aspects of word formation:",
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"text": "Morphotactics is dealt with by a so-called continuation lexicon. In expressiveness that is equivalent to a finite state automaton consuming morphs.",
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"text": "Morphophonology is treated by assuming two distinct levels, namely a lexical and a surface level. The lexical level consists of a sequence of morphs as found in the lexicon; the surface level is the form found in the actual text/utterance. The mapping between these two levels is constrained by so-called two-level rules describing the contexts for certain phonological alterations.",
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"text": "An example for a morphophonolocical alteration in German is the insertion of e between a stem ending in a t or d, and a suffix starting with s or t, e.g., 3rd person singular of the verb arbeiten (to work) is arbeitest. In two-level morphology that means that the lexical form arbei~+st has to be mapped to surface arbeitest. The following rule will enforce just that mapping:",
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"text": "In its basic form two-level morphology is not well suited for our task because all the morphosyntactic information is encoded in the lexical form. When connected to a syntactic/semantic component one needs an interface to mediate between the morphological and the syntactic word. We will show in in chapter 5 how our version of two-level-morphology is extended to provide such an interface.",
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"text": "Usually, in German derived words are morphologically regular. 4 Morphophonological alterations are the same as for inflection only the occurrence of umlaut is less regular. Syntax and semantics on the other hand are very often irregular with respect to compositional rules for derivation. As an example we will look at the German derivational prefix be-. This prefix is both very productive and considered to be rather regular. The prefix beproduces transitive verbs mostly from (intransitive) verbs but also from other word categories. We will restrict ourselves here to all those cases where the new verb is formed from a verb. In the new verb the direct object role is filled by a modifier role of the original verb while the original meaning is basically preserved. One regularly formed example is bearbeiten derived from the intransitive verb arbeiten (to work).",
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"text": "( tries starting with prefix be-. 91 of these can be excluded because they cannot be explained as being derived from verbs. Of the remaining 147 words about 60 have no meaning that can be interpreted compositionally. 5 The remaining ones do have at least one compositional meaning. Even with those the situation is difficult. In some cases the derived word takes just one of the meanings of the original word as its semantic basis, e.g., befolgen (to obey) is derived from folgen in the meaning to obey, but not to follow or to ensue:",
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"text": "X2MORF [Trost, 1991a; Trost, 1991b ] that forms the basis of our system is a morphological component based on two-level morphology. X2MORF extends the standard model in two way which are crucial for our task. A feature-based word grammer replaces the continuation class approach thus providing a natural interface to the syntax/semantics component. Twolevel rules are provided with a morphological filter restricting their application to certain morphological classes.",
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"text": "To form a legal word that stem must combine with an inflectional ending. Fig.2 shows the (simplified) entry for the plural ending. Note that plural formation also involves umlaut, i.e., the correct surface 5About half of them are actually derived from words from other classes like belehlen (to order) which is clearly derived from the noun Belehl (order) and not the verb fehlen (to miss). X2MORF employs an extended version of two-level rules. Besides the standard phonological context they also have a morphological context in form of a feature structure. This morphological context is unified with the feature structure of the morph to which the character pair belongs. This morphological context serves two purposes. One is to restrict the application of morphophonological rules to suitable morphological contexts. The other is to enable the transmission of information from the phonological to the morphological level.",
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"text": "We disagree since the facts can be described in X2MORF in a fairly natural manner. Once the equivalence classes with respect to umlaut are known we can describe the data using a complex feature UMLAUT 6 instead of the simple binary one. This complex feature UMLAUT consists of a feature for each class, which takes as value + or -and one feature value for the recording of actual occurrence of umlaut:",
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"text": "\u2022 The compositional reading of a derived word cannot be suppressed r, even worse, it is indistinguishable from the correct reading (remember the befehlen example).",
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