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Subject: Announcing: FINITE STATE MORPHOLOGY Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 10:32:55 -0700 From: Christine Sosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Recipient List Suppressed:; CSLI Publications is pleased to announce the publication of: FINITE STATE MORPHOLOGY, Kenneth R. Beesley (Xerox Research Center Europe) and Lauri Karttunen (Palo Alto Research Center); paper ISBN: 1-57586-434-7, $40.00, cloth ISBN: 1-57586-433-9, $85.00, 528 pages, copyright 2003 by CSLI Publications. http://cslipublications.stanford.edu , email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This book may be ordered directly from our distributor, the University of Chicago Press (UCP) or at your local bookstore. To contact UCP, please call their toll free order number 1-800-621-2736 (U.S. & Canada only) or order online at http://www.press.uchicago.edu/ (use the search feature to locate the book, then order). Book description: The finite-state paradigm is increasingly popular, and natural-language applications based on the theory are elegant, robust, and efficient. This book is a practical guide to finite-state theory and to the use of the Xerox finite-state programming languages lexc and xfst. It explains how to write morphological analyzer/generators and tokenizers for words in natural languages such as English, French, Arabic, Finnish, Hungarian, Malay, Korean, etc. The text provides graded introductions, examples, and exercises that are suitable for individual study or formal courses. Natural-language words are typically formed of morphemes concatenated together, as in un+guard+ed+ly and over+critic+al, but some languages also exhibit non-concatenative processes such as interdigitation and reduplication. When morphemes are combined together into new words, they often display alternations in their pronunciation or spelling, as when swim+ing becomes swimming, take+ing becomes taking and die+ing becomes dying. Finite-state morphology assumes that both the word-formation rules (morphotactics) and the morpho-phonological alternation rules can be modeled as finite-state machines. The lexc and xfst command-line applications are widely tested, having been used commercially by Xerox and its partners, and in research by over 80 licensees. The book includes a non-commercial license and a CD-ROM with the Xerox finite-state software compiled for the Solaris, Linux, Windows, and Macintosh OS X operating systems. ------------------------------ -- --------------------- Christine Sosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] ****************************** CSLI Publications Ventura Hall Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305-4115 (650) 723-1839 (650) 725-2166 (fax) http://cslipublications.stanford.edu/ ------------------------------------------------------- _____________________________________________ Lista de discusión Aymara http://aymara.org/lista/lista.php _____________________________________________
