Morphy, an integrated tool for German morphology and
statistical part-of-speech tagging developed by Wolfgang
Lezius (University of Paderborn, cognitive Psychology)
is now available on the WWW under the following URL:
http://www-psycho.uni-paderborn.de/lezius/lezius.html
The package includes a lexicon of about 100 000 word
forms and documentation (in German). An overview in
English is given in the paper "A Morphology System
and POS-Tagger for German", which can be downloaded
from the same URL.
The tool is intended to make some well established
methods (e.g. Church's tagging algorithm), which
have been adapted to German, widely available.
For this reason it is PC-based, and great emphasis
has been put on user-friendliness. For example, when
adding a new word to the lexicon, the user is asked
the minimal number of questions which are necessary
to infer the word's grammatical features and which
any native speaker should be able to answer.
The system is suitable for linguistic research, but
also for teaching purposes in CL classes and for
use by second language learners.
Regards,
Reinhard
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