Tree Structured Dirichlet Processes for Hierarchical Morphological Segmentation

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CAN BUĞLALILAR B., Manandhar S.

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS, cilt.44, sa.2, ss.349-374, 2018 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 44 Sayı: 2
  • Basım Tarihi: 2018
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1162/coli_a_00318
  • Dergi Adı: COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.349-374
  • Hacettepe Üniversitesi Adresli: Evet

Özet

This article presents a probabilistic hierarchical clustering model for morphological segmentation. In contrast to existing approaches to morphology learning, our method allows learning hierarchical organization of word morphology as a collection of tree structured paradigms. The model is fully unsupervised and based on the hierarchical Dirichlet process. Tree hierarchies are learned along with the corresponding morphological paradigms simultaneously. Our model is evaluated on Morpho Challenge and shows competitive performance when compared to state-of-the-art unsupervised morphological segmentation systems. Although we apply this model for morphological segmentation, the model itself can also be used for hierarchical clustering of other types of data.