Thank You for excellent explanation,and scientific view point on computational linguistics.Lots of my doubts cleared,and inspired for higher research in computational linguistics.Dr. Amit Purushottam
Yes, you can. In this case, however, the nondeterminism is a convenience. To glue multiple FSAs together, you can just say: I now have an epsilon transition to all of the start stats of the FSAs I'm gluing together. It allows yourself not to think about the specific construction of the FSAs.
How common are courses in English about morphological parsing of other languages like the agglutinative Japanese or morphologically-simple Chinese? I'm just curious if any Anglophone university teaches computational linguistics targeting another language, or if that's just too impractical.
It's rare, but it does happen. Particularly for languages like Arabic. For instance, Mona Diab has taught "Arabic Computational Linguistics", which has a big morphology component.
Thanks for this great lecture! One question concerning non-deterministic FSAs: Why do you need the non-deterministic start at all? Can't you go to q3, q6, q15 and q17 immediately from the start state?
First of all thanks for this informative lecture sets. In slide number 7, Skyped, Faxed are mentioned as derivational morphology. Shouldn't they be inflectional or hybrid? Skype is a noun which is changed to verb and then it changed into the past form of that verb...
Dear musicfanatics21 You are right if you consider it in isolation, however, if you place it in a context such as 'Skyped interview was fruitful.' it turns out to be an adjective derived from a noun. The category of the original word changes.
