形態素(けいたいそ)

けいたいそ
noun
morpheme
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1. morpheme
In linguistics, the smallest unit of language that carries meaning. A word may consist of one morpheme or several, such as a root plus prefixes and suffixes.
形態素(けいたいそ)は意味(いみ)の最小単位(さいしょうたんい)だ。
A morpheme is the smallest unit of meaning.
この単語(たんご)は三(みっ)つの形態素(けいたいそ)に分(わ)けられる。
This word can be divided into three morphemes.
日本語(にほんご)の文章(ぶんしょう)を形態素(けいたいそ)に分割(ぶんかつ)する解析(かいせき)ソフトが広(ひろ)く使(つか)われている。
Software that breaks Japanese text into morphemes is widely used.

A technical term in linguistics and natural language processing. In Japanese computing, 形態素解析(けいたいそかいせき) (morphological analysis) is a fundamental step in processing text, since Japanese is written without spaces between words.

Common collocations

  • 形態素解析(けいたいそかいせき): morphological analysis
  • 自由(じゆう)形態素(けいたいそ): free morpheme
  • 拘束(こうそく)形態素(けいたいそ): bound morpheme

Similar words

  • 単語(たんご): word — may consist of one or more morphemes
  • 語幹(ごかん): stem; root — the core part of a word to which endings attach

Related Words

Compare: 単語(たんご) (word)
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