Download or read book The Computational Complexity of Two-Level Morphology written by G. Edward Barton (Jr) and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Morphological analysis requires knowledge of the stems, affixes, combinatory patterns, and spelling-change processes of a natural language. The computational difficulty of the task can be clarified by investigating the computational characteristics of specific models of morphological processing. The use of finite-state machinery in the two-level model by Kimmo Koskenniemi gives it the appearance of computational efficiency, but closer examination shows the model does not guarantee efficient processing. Reductions of the satisfiability problem show that finding the proper lexical-surface correspondence in a two-level generation or recognition problem can be computationally difficult. However, another source of complexity in the exsting algorithms can be sharply reduced by changing the implementation of the dictionary component. A merged dictionary with bit-vectors reduces the number of choices among alternative dictionary subdivisions by allowing several subdivisions to be searched at once.