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ERIC Number: ED618429
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2021-Jun-14
Pages: 6
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: EISSN-
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WikiMorph: Learning to Decompose Words into Morphological Structures
Yarbro, Jeffrey T.; Olney, Andrew M.
Grantee Submission, Paper presented at the International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (22nd, 2021)
This paper presents WikiMorph, a tool that automatically breaks down words into morphemes, etymological compounds (morphemes from root languages), and generates contextual definitions for each component. It comes in two flavors: a dataset and a deep-learning-based model. The dataset was extracted from Wiktionary and contains over 450k entries. We then used this dataset to train a GPT-2 model to generalize and decompose any word into morphemes and their definitions. We find that the model accurately generates complex breakdowns when given a high-quality initial definition. [This paper was published in: "Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education," edited by I. Roll, D. McNamara, S. Sosnovsky, R. Luckin, and V. Dimitrova, Springer International Publishing, 2021, pp. 406-11.]
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: N/A
Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF); Institute of Education Sciences (ED)
Authoring Institution: N/A
IES Funded: Yes
Grant or Contract Numbers: 1918751; 1934745; R305A190448