A Finite-State Treatment of Neoclassical Compounds in Modern Greek and English

摘要

This paper presents an attempt to process neoclassical compounds (NCs) in Modern Greek (MG) and English with the use of finite-state methods. Our approach is based on a theoretical background that applies to both languages and assumes that Modern Greek compounding has affected the formation of NCs in English. The processing system is proposed to be both linguistically accurate and computationally efficient.