Date: 16-Nov-2007 From: Jasper de Vaal <jasper.devaalspringer.com> Subject: Arabic Computational Morphology: Soudi, van den Bosch, Neumann (Eds) E-mail this message to a friend
Title: Arabic Computational Morphology
Subtitle: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods
Series Title: Text, Speech and Language Technology
Published: 2007
Publisher: Springer
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Editor: Abdelhadi Soudi
Editor: Antal P. van den Bosch
Editor: Günter Neumann
Hardback: ISBN: 9781402060458 Pages: 308 Price: U.K. £ 88.50
Abstract:
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).
Linguistic Field(s):
Computational Linguistics
Morphology
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