Inflected Word Generation Process

An Inflected Word Generation Process is a Morphological Process of transforming a Base Word to an Inflected Word.

• AKA: Word Inflection Process, Inflection Process, Inflectional Process.
• Context:
  • It can make use of an Inflection Rule.
  • It can be a:
    • Possessivisation Process.
    • Pluralization Process.
    • Gendering Process.
    • Declension Process.
    • Verb Tense Process/Conjugation Process.
  • …
• Example(s):
  • "go" ⇒ "went" (a Conjugated Verb).
• See: Derived Word Generation Process.

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References

2003

• (Mitkov, 2003) ⇒ Ruslan Mitkov, editor. (2003). “The Oxford Handbook of Computational Linguistics." Oxford University Press. ISBN:019927634X
  • inflection: (1) The morphological process of adding inflections to base forms of words, as required by syntactic context; (ii) a linguistic element that is added to or alters the base form of a word, as require by particular syntactic contexts. Inflections

1999

• (Manning and Schütze, 1999) ⇒ Christopher D. Manning and Hinrich Schütze. (1999). “Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing." The MIT Press.
  • Word categories are systematically related by morphological processes** such as the formation of the plural form (dog-s). from the singular form of the noun (dog). Morphology is important in NLP because language is productive: in any given text we will encounter words and word forms that we haven't seen before and that are not in our precompiled dictionary. Many of these new words are morphologically related to known words. So if we understand morphological processes, we can infer a log about the syntactic and semantic properties of new words.
  • The major types of morphological processes are inflection, derivation, and compounding. Inflections are the systematic modifications of a root form by means of prefixes and suffixes to indicate grammatical distinctions like singular and plural. Inflection does not change words class of meaning significantly, but varies features such as tense, number, and plurality. All the inflectional forms of a word are often grouped as manifestations of a single lexeme.

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