@inproceedings{27a96cd29faf4ffead303726efecd387,
title = "A Probabilistic Model for Learning Concatenative Morphology",
abstract = "This paper describes a system for the unsupervised learning of morphological suffixes and stems from word lists. The system is composed of a generative probability model and hill-climbing and directed search algorithms. By extracting and examining morphologically rich subsets of an input lexicon, the directed search identifies highly productive paradigms. The hill-climbing algorithm then further maximizes the probability of the hypothesis. Quantitative results are shown by measuring the accuracy of the morphological relations identified. Experiments in English and Polish, as well as comparisons with another recent unsupervised morphology learning algorithm demonstrate the effectiveness of this technique.",
author = "Snover, {Matthew G.} and Brent, {Michael R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} NIPS 2002: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems. All rights reserved.; 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems, NIPS 2002 ; Conference date: 09-12-2002 Through 14-12-2002",
year = "2002",
language = "English",
series = "NIPS 2002: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Neural Information Processing Systems",
publisher = "MIT Press Journals",
pages = "1513--1520",
editor = "Suzanna Becker and Sebastian Thrun and Klaus Obermayer",
booktitle = "NIPS 2002",
}