morphological segmentation
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nounfemininepl: morphological segmentations / segmentações morfológicas
segmentação morfológica
1. The process of dividing words into their smallest meaningful units (morphemes) to analyze linguistic structure
Morphological segmentation of the word 'unhappiness' breaks it down into 'un-', 'happy', and '-ness'.
A segmentação morfológica da palavra 'infelicidade' a divide em 'in-', 'feliz' e '-dade'.
2. In computational linguistics and natural language processing, the automatic identification and separation of morphemes within words
The NLP system performs morphological segmentation to improve machine translation accuracy.
O sistema de processamento de linguagem natural realiza segmentação morfológica para melhorar a precisão da tradução automática.
3. A linguistic technique used to identify word boundaries and internal morphemic structure in languages without spaces between words
Morphological segmentation is crucial for processing agglutinative languages like Turkish.
A segmentação morfológica é crucial para o processamento de línguas aglutinativas como o turco.
This is a technical term primarily used in academic, linguistic, and computational contexts. It is essential in both Brazilian Portuguese and international linguistics education, particularly in computer science and language technology programs. The term is identical across Portuguese-speaking regions due to its specialized nature.
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