Chapter 3. Morphology – Getting Our Feet Wet
Morphology may be defined as the study of the composition of words using morphemes. A morpheme is the smallest unit of language that has meaning. In this chapter, we will discuss stemming and lemmatizing, stemmer and lemmatizer for non-English languages, developing a morphological analyzer and morphological generator using machine learning tools, search engines, and many such concepts.
In brief, this chapter will include the following topics:
- Introducing morphology
- Understanding stemmer
- Understanding lemmatization
- Developing a stemmer for non-English languages
- Morphological analyzer
- Morphological generator
- Search engine
Introducing morphology
Morphology may be defined as the study of the production of tokens with the help of morphemes. A morpheme is the basic unit of language carrying meaning. There are two types of morpheme: stems and affixes (suffixes, prefixes, infixes, and circumfixes).
Stems are also referred to as free morphemes...