Texas Linguist Forum 22, 1983
In the Spring of 1983 Lauri Karttunen taught a course on Computational
Linguistics at the University of Texas. As a class project for the
course Karttunen and his students created a Lisp implementation of
Kimmo Koskenniemi's Two-Level Model (Two-level
morphology: A general computational model for word-form recognition and
production. Publication 11, University of Helsinki, 1983) that
appeared later that year. Karttunen had an advanced copy of
Koskenniemi's PASCAL implementation. In order to make sure that the
credit for the idea got attributed to the right person, the Texas
system was named KIMMO. The name stuck and the Texas KIMMO inspired
many copies and variations including PC-KIMMO from SIL (Evan L.
Antworth. PC-KIMMO: a two-level
processor for morphological analysis. No. 16. Occasional
publications in academic computing. Dallas: Summer Institute of
Linguistics, 1990). The papers written for the course were published as
a special issue of the Texas Linguistic Forum, Vol. 22, 1983.
Foreword
Lauri Karttunen, John J. McCarthy.
Kimmo: A General Morphological Analyzer
Lauri Karttunen, pp 165-186.
Lisp Implementation Oliver Gajek, Hanno T.
Beck, Diane Elder and Greg Whittemore, pp. 187-202.
Kimmo Users' Manual Robert Khan, Jocelyn
S. Liu, Tatsuo Ito, and Kelly Shuldberg. pp. 203-215.
A Two-level Morphological Analysis of
English Lauri Karttunen and Kent Wittenburg, pp. 217-228.
A Two-level Morphological Analysis of
Japanese Yukiko Sasaki Alam, pp. 229-252.
A Two-level Morphological Analysis of
Rumanian Robert Khan, pp. 253-270.
A Two-level Morphological Analysis of French
S. Lun, pp. 271-278.