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We present Morfessor, an unsupervised algorithm and software that induces a simple morphology of a natural language from a large corpus. Morfessor simultaneously builds a morph lexicon and represents the corpus with the induced lexicon using a probabilistic maximum a posteriori model.
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Creutz, M., Lagus, K., Virpioja, S. (2006). Unsupervised Morphology Induction Using Morfessor. In: Yli-Jyrä, A., Karttunen, L., Karhumäki, J. (eds) Finite-State Methods and Natural Language Processing. FSMNLP 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 4002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11780885_34
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