Morphological dictionary  From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Jump to: navigation, search  In the field of computational
linguistics, a morphological dictionary is a linguistic resource
that contains correspondences between surface form and lexical
forms of words. Surface forms of words are those found in any
text. The corresponding lexical form of a surface form is the
lemma followed by grammatical information (for example the part
of speech, gender and number). In English give, gives, giving,
gave and given are surface forms of the verb give. The lexical
form would be "give", verb. There are two kinds of morphological
dictionaries: aligned and non-aligned.  Aligned morphological
dictionaries[edit]  In an aligned morphological dictionary, the
correspondence between the surface form and the lexical form of
a word is aligned at the character level, for example:  (h,h)
(o,o) (u,u) (s,s) (e,e) (s,<n>), (θ,<pl>)  Where θ is the empty
symbol and <n> signifies "noun", and <pl> signifies "plural".
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