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MAP: Cambridge/Edinburgh Morphological Analyzer and Dictionary System

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MAP lets the user create lexicons for English (and other languages) suitable for use in a natural language parsing systems. In addition to simple look up, the system includes a rule driven morphological analyzer. Thus words to be held in the lexicon in stem and affix form (e.g. "move", and "ed", "ing"), and the morphological analyzer can segment given full words into their basic components (e.g. "moved" to "move ed" and "travelling" to "travel ing"). thus cutting down the number of required entries in the lexicon. The work is done within the framework of general feature grammars and two-level morphology. MAP is a more powerful representation formalism than KIMMO two-level finite state transducers, which offer only finite state morphosyntax and finite state morphographemics.
Origin:   

   scott.cogsci.ed.ac.uk:/pub/phonology/tools/MAP/  [129.215.144.3]
   as the file MAP3.1.tar.Z

Version: 3.1 (August 1992) Requires: Franz Lisp (opus 38.79 or later) or Common Lisp Copying: Copyright (c) 1987 Graeme Ritchie, Steve Pulman, Graham Russell and Alan Black CD-ROM: Prime Time Freeware for AI, Issue 1-1 Author(s): Alan W. Black ATR Interpreting Telecommunications Laboratories 2-2 Hikaridai Seika-cho, Soraku-gun, Kyoto 619-02, Japan Tel: (+81) 7749 5 1314 Fax: (+81) 7749 5 1308 Alan W Black Centre for Cognitive Science University of Edinburgh 1-13 Buccleuch Place Edinburgh EH8 9LW, UK Keywords: Authors!Black, Authors!Pulman, Authors!Ritchie, Authors!Russell, Lisp!Code, MAP, Morphology, NLP, Term Unification, Unification References: Graeme D. Ritchie, et. al., "Computational Morphology: Practical Mechanisms for the English Lexicon", MIT Press, 1992. 291 pages, ISBN 0-262-18146-0. For details of the system and its implementation see "Dictionary and Morphological Analyzer User Guide", distributed with the system.
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