surface analysis
surface analysis noun: any synchronically valid analysis of a word’s morphology regardless of whether it represents its diachronic etymology, that is, its historical origin.
Noun
surface analysis (countable and uncountable, plural surface analyses)
- 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
- Synonyms:
- surface etymology
- Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see surface, analysis.
Synonyms of surface analysis
Forms of surface analysis
| plural | surface analyses |
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Origin of surface analysis
From surface (“an outward appearance”) + analysis.
Questions about surface analysis
- What does surface analysis mean?
- Surface analysis means any synchronically valid analysis of a word’s morphology regardless of whether it represents its diachronic etymology, that is, its historical origin.
- What part of speech is surface analysis?
- Surface analysis is a noun.
- What is the plural of surface analysis?
- The plural of surface analysis is surface analyses.
Words near surface analysis in the dictionary
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