A two-level morphological analysis of Korean

The two-level morphology model has received a great deal of attention and has been implemented for languages like Finnish, English, Japanese, Russian, French, and so on. However, this model has been claimed to be inappropriate for Korean morphological analysis, because the complex conjugation (inflection) and agglutination in word formation, and the syllable-based representation of words may lead to a huge number of two-level morphological rules. In this paper, we show that the two-level model can be successfully applied to Korean and its rule size is limited to only 52. An extension of two-level morphology is described for Korean language.