Words, Parts of Speech, Morphology (1/27/2022)
Lecture: (by Alan Black)
- What is a Word, What is Morphology
- UD Treebank Morphology Annotations
- Morphological Analysis
Language in 10: Kannada
Slides: Words Slides
Discussion: Pick a language in one of the following branches of language families: Bantu, Dravidian, Finno-Ugric, Japonic, Papuan, Semitic, Slavic, Turkic. Tell us about some interesting aspects of morphology of that language, following examples from the assigned reading. Cite your sources.
If you would need to implement a tokenizer for that language, what language specific knowledge would need to be incorporated into the tokenizer?