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surface analyses

surface analyses is the plural of surface analysis.

Meaning of surface analysis

Noun

surface analysis (countable and uncountable, plural surface analyses)

  1. Any synchronically valid analysis of a word’s morphology regardless of whether it represents its diachronic etymology, that is, its historical origin.
    • Class guessers for the Xerox tagger assign potential POS [part-of-speech] tags to unknown words according to a surface analysis of the word form. In addition to the common practice of mapping POS tags according to the words’ suffixes, this implementation makes use of the case of the initial letter...2013, S. Armstrong, Kenneth W. Church, Pierre Isabelle, Sandra Manzi, Evelyne Tzoukermann, David Yarowsky, Natural Language Processing Using Very Large Corpora, →ISBN
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see surface, analysis.

Questions about surface analyses

What is surface analyses the plural of?
Surface analyses is the plural of surface analysis.

Words near surface analyses in the dictionary

  1. surf-casts
  2. surf-rider
  3. surf-riders
  4. surfable
  5. surface
  6. surface analyses
  7. surface analysis
  8. surface area
  9. surface areas
  10. surface boundary layer
  11. surface boundary layers

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