The self-extending lexicon
Geert Adrisens, Maartan Lemmens · 1990
In METAL, morphological analysis is a recursive process of lookup and segmentation that scans input words from left to right in search of their component parts. This results in a set of possible interpretations which correspond t o acceptable sequences of morphemes recognized in the word (3). Words (or parts of complex words) which are not in the dictionary will be assigned the category UNK (for UNKnown). The morphemes that are the result of morphological analysis are then put in a chart structure for further processing by (morpho)synt~ctic rules.