1. Twelve Years of Morphology and Language Technology Mathias Creutz Morpho Challenge 2 September 2010

2. 2 1998 - 2001 2001 - 2007 2005 - 2006 2007 - 2008 2008 - 2010 2010 - ? www.alpha-sense.com

3. 2 September 20103 Morphology in applications Information retrieval / search: normalization Proofing / disambiguation: vocabulary coverage Language understanding / generation: decomposition, recomposition, reduction of data sparseness

4. 2 September 20104 Morphology in applications Information retrieval / search: normalization Proofing / disambiguation: vocabulary coverage Language understanding / generation: decomposition, recomposition, reduction of data sparseness

5. 2 September 20105 Morphology in research Traditional linguistic research: creation of (descriptive) grammars Computational linguistic: algorithms for morhological analysis, machine learning Language acquisition: machine learning vs. learning in nature

6. 2 September 20106 Morphology in research Traditional linguistic research: creation of (descriptive) grammars Computational linguistic: algorithms for morhological analysis, machine learning Language acquisition: machine learning vs. learning in nature

7. 2 September 20107 Discovered a prefix paradigm for English? allareillonering b-ballbarebillbonebring c-callcare cill cone cring h-hallharehillhone hring m-mallmaremill monemring st-stallstarestillstonestring t-talltaretilltone tring w-wallwarewill wone wring

8. 2 September 20108 Thank you and good luck!