- three videos of short lectures. They cover:
- Introduction to Mophology
- A general introduction to Finite State Transducers
- Finite State Transducers applied to morphology.
- some required reading from Jurafsky and Martin
- a quiz that tests your understanding of the material presented here.
Lecture 11 Slides: Whole!
11a: Introduction to Morphology
- Slides: 11a_slides.pdf
11b: Morphology: Introduction to Finite State Transducers
- Slides: 11b_slides.pdf
11c: Finite State Transducers applied to Morphology
- Slides: 11c_slides.pdf
Recommended Reading
J&M 2nd edition: 3.1--3.7.
NLTK 3.5--3.6.
NOTE: The abbreviation J&M refers to the textbook:
Dan Jurafsky and James H. Martin, Speech and Language Processing.
When we specify 2nd edition, we are referring to the version of the book that was published by Pearson International in 2008.
When we specify 3rd edition, then we will supply links to the drafts of the relevant parts of that book (since the third editiion isn't published yet, but the current draft is available here).
The abbreviation NLTK refers to the textbook:
Bird, S., E. Klein and E. Loper (2009), Natural Language Processing with Python, O'Reilly Media
An (early) online version of this book is here.
Quiz 11: Morphology
These questions are designed to test your understanding of the above course content; doing this quiz does not contribute to your overall grade. Some questions require a text answer. You can ask for formative feedback on these from your tutor or on piazza. Other questions are multiple choice or they require a numeric answer: you will get immediate feedback for these. Please don't attempt this quiz until you have acquainted yourself with this lecture and the required reading.
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