Challenge Programme
Unsupervised Morpheme Analysis — Morpho Challenge 2007
General description of the challenge or a challenge series (1 October 2006 – 21 September 2007)
The objective of the Challenge is to design a statistical machine learning algorithm that discovers which morphemes (smallest individually meaningful units of language) words consist of. Ideally, these are basic vocabulary units suitable for different tasks, such as text understanding, machine translation, information retrieval, and statistical language modeling.
The scientific goals are:
- To learn of the phenomena underlying word construction in natural languages
- To discover approaches suitable for a wide range of languages
- To advance machine learning methodology
