CS Lunch talk Monday, October 24

Scott Blaha '07 and Connie Li '06 will discuss their summer research work with Professor Rich Wicentowski

" Minimally Supervised Analysis of Multilingual Verb Morphology "

A morphological analyzer is an algorithm that, given an inflected word, produces its component morphemes as well as morphological features. Effective analyzers can be useful in solving other computational linguistics problems such as machine translation and speech recognition. Using a corpus of a target language, we can construct a morphological analyzer by examining the text and comparing the orthographic and semantic similarities of the words. This talk will discuss the value and important features of a morphological analyzer and will present two separate systems that we developed, and the methods used for creating them.