A freely available morphological analyzer, disambiguator and context sensitive lemmatizer for German

Abstract

In this paper we present Morphy, an integrated tool for German morphology, part-ofspeech tagging and context-sensitive lemmatization. Its large lexicon of more than 320,000 word forms plus its ability to process German compound nouns guarantee a wide morphological coverage. Syntactic ambiguities can be resolved with a standard statistical part-of-speech tagger. By using the output of the tagger, the lemmatizer can determine the correct root even for ambiguous word forms. The complete package is freely available and can be downloaded from the World Wide Web.

Tools for Semi-automatic Assignment of Czech Nouns to Declination Patterns

“…Typical example of such a specialised database is a dictionary used by a morphological analyser (e.g. [2][3][4][5]). Dynamic actualisation (and the extension in particular) of the dictionary is important for increasing the number of successfully recognised word forms by the analyser in real texts.…”

The CogALex-IV Shared Task on the Lexical Access Problem

“…Assume, for example, that the target word form is can which might be an auxiliary verb or a noun. In this case, the inflected form cans in the expanded list would only be correct if the target word can referred to the noun, but not if it referred to the auxiliary verb (see also Lezius et al, 1998). Of course one could try to disambiguate the target words based on the given words.…”

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“…It was written by Lezius, Rapp, and Wettler at the university of Paderborn (Lezius, Rapp, & Wettler, 1998). Morphy is available on the Internet at http://www-psycho.uni-paderborn.de/ lezius/.…”

“…For our German material we used the lemmatizer Morphy. Morphy was designed by Lezius, Rapp, and Wettler (1998) and is freely available on the web.…”