Entry

Jan W. Amtrup (2003)

"Feature Structures as Weights in Finite State Morphology."
In Proceedings of the Workshop on Finite State Methods in Natural Language Processing. Budapest, Hungary. April 2003

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Abstract

We present a finite state morphology system augmented with typed feature structures as weights on transitions. Using a semiring interpretation, the weight of a result represents the possible linguistic interpretations of an input word, while the resulting character string itself represents the lemma of the input. Long-distance phenomena and infixation can be handled in an easy and elegant manner, simultaneously providing a seamless interface to subsequent linguistic processing modules.