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PASCAL Challenges Workshop 2

Morfessor in the Morpho Challenge

author: Krista Lagus, Helsinki University of Technology

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In this work, Morfessor, a morpheme segmentation model and algorithm developed by the organizers of the Morpho Challenege, is outlined and references are made to earlier work. Although Morfessor does not take part in the official Challenge competition, we report experimental results for the morpheme segmentation of English, Finnish and Turkish words. The obtained results are very good. Morfessor outperforms the other algorithms in the Finnish and Turkish tasks and comes second in the English task. In the Finnish speech recognition task, Morfessor achieves the lowest latter error rate.

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0:00 Morfessor in the Morpho Challenge
1:09 Challenge for NLP: too many words
2:39 Solution approaches
4:32 Goal: segmentation
6:06 Further challenges in morphology learning
6:22 Linguistic evaluation using Hutmegs
7:54 Morfessor models in the Challenge
9:22 Avoiding overlearning by controlling model complexity
11:01 Morfessor Baseline
12:42 Search for the optimal model
13:43 Challenge Results
15:02 Morfessor- Categories – ML & MAP
17:13 Morph lexicon
17:51 How morph distributional features affect morph categories
18:34 How distributional features affect categories (2)
18:50 MAP vs. ML optimization
20:51 Hierarchical structures in lexicon
21:12 Example segmentations
21:19 Challenge Results
21:57 Morfessor results: closer look
22:22 Speech recognition results: Finnish
22:35 Speech recognition results: Turkish
22:51 A reason for differences?
23:23 Discussion
26:04 Questions for the Morpho Challenge
27:45 See you in another challenge!

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