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Arabic Computational Morphology

Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods

  • The first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology
  • A showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics
  • Covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches, also from a broader perspective of large-scale applications

Part of the book series: Text, Speech and Language Technology (TLTB, volume 38)

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Table of contents (15 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-VIII
  2. Introduction

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods

      • Abdelhadi Soudi, Günter Neumann, Antal van den Bosch
      Pages 3-14
    3. On Arabic Transliteration

      • Nizar Habash, Abdelhadi Soudi, Timothy Buckwalter
      Pages 15-22
    4. Issues in Arabic Morphological Analysis

      • Timothy Buckwalter
      Pages 23-41
  3. Knowledge-Based Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 43-43
  4. Empirical Methods

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 141-141
    2. Learning to Identify Semitic Roots

      • Ezra Daya, Dan Roth, Shuly Wintner
      Pages 143-158
    3. Automatic Processing of Modern Standard Arabic Text

      • Mona Diab, Kadri Hacioglu, Daniel Jurafsky
      Pages 159-179
    4. Memory-based Morphological Analysis and Part-of-speech Tagging of Arabic

      • Antal van den Bosch, Erwin Marsi, Abdelhadi Soudi
      Pages 201-217
  5. Integration of Arabic Morphology in Larger Applications

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-219
    2. Light Stemming for Arabic Information Retrieval

      • Leah S. Larkey, Lisa Ballesteros, Margaret E. Connell
      Pages 221-243
    3. Adapting Morphology for Arabic Information Retrieval*

      • Kareem Darwish, Douglas W. Oard
      Pages 245-262

About this book

The morphology of Arabic poses special challenges to computational natural language processing systems. The exceptional degree of ambiguity in the writing system, the rich morphology, and the highly complex word formation process of roots and patterns all contribute to making computational approaches to Arabic very challenging. Indeed many computational linguists across the world have taken up this challenge over time, and many of the researchers with a track record in this research area have contributed to this book.

The book’s subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. These accounts fall into two main paradigms: the knowledge-based and the empirical. Since morphological knowledge plays an essential role in any higher-level understanding and processing of Arabic text, the book also features a part on the role of Arabic morphology in larger applications, i.e. Information Retrieval (IR) and Machine Translation (MT).

Editors and Affiliations

  • Ecole Nationale de I’Industrie Minérale, Rabat, Morocco

    Abdelhadi Soudi

  • Tilburg University, The Netherlands

    Antal van den Bosch

  • Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, Saarbrücken, Germany

    Günter Neumann

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