Automatic English inflection

• fiche de synthèse - matière potentielle : the noun classes

[Proceedings of the National Symposium on Machine Translation, UCLA February 1960] Session 5: GRAMMATICAL STUDIES AUTOMATIC ENGLISH INFLECTION1 William D. Foust Harvard University This paper is a description of a system for classifying English nouns and verbs into inflectional classes semi-automatically, and for inflecting English automatically, using these inflectional classes. The inflectional classification system has been applied to the English correspondents in the Harvard automatic dictionary file, and the in- flection process itself is intended to be a part of the English synthesis procedure in translation.

• regular classification procedure
• correspondents
• part of the transla- tion procedure
• class marker
• noun noun classification figure
• inflectional classes
• nouns
• noun
• 3verbs
• verbs
• system