9 Computational Morphology*
Kyle Gorman is assistant professor of linguistics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, where he directs the master’s program in computational linguistics. He also works as a software engineer at Google. He is the creator of the Pynini finite-state grammar development toolkit, and with Richard Sproat, author of the book Finite-State Text Processing. He earned his PhD in linguistics from the University of Pennsylvania. He lives in Brooklyn.
9.1 Introduction
Computers are used in virtually all stages of linguistic research, for example, to record audio and video and collate field notes, to gather word frequency statistics, and to measure reaction times in psycholinguistic experiments. In this chapter, we focus on computational morphology in a narrower sense: the design of software that analyzes or generates words not as atomic, indivisible units, but as the intricately structured objects linguists have long recognized them to be.
9.2 Early Work
The linguistic ...
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