Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods

by Abdelhadi Soudi (Editor), Antal van den Bosch (Editor), Günter Neumann (Editor)

This is the first comprehensive overview of computational approaches to Arabic morphology. The subtitle aims to reflect that widely different computational approaches to the Arabic morphological system have been proposed. The book provides a showcase of the most advanced language technologies applied to one of the most vexing problems in linguistics. It covers knowledge-based and empirical-based approaches.

Genres: Linguistics

316 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2007

Reviews

[David · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a collection of fifteen papers about Arabic computational morphology, with specific topics ranging from Arabic script processing and transliteration to morphological analysis. There is a good overview of the current state of the art, with papers covering supervised and unsupervised machine learning, stemming, information retrieval, etc. It's really a survey of the field, with little organization, and depending on your needs, you'll probably find only a few of the papers useful.