Meaning of surface analysis | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any synchronically valid analysis of a word’s morphology regardless of whether it represents its diachronic etymology, that is, its historical origin.
   countable, uncountable
2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see surface, analysis.
   countable, uncountable

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“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 of a word, which is highly significant for POS assignment in German.”

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