Arabic Morphology Generation Using a Concatenative Strategy

Arabic inflectional morphology requires infixation, prefixation and suffixation, giving rise to a large space of morphological variation. In this paper we describe an approach to reducing the complexity of Arabic morphology generation using discrimination trees and transformational rules. By decoupling the problem of stem changes from that of prefixes and suffixes, we gain a significant reduction in the number of rules required, as much as a factor of three for certain verb types. We focus on hollow verbs but discuss the wider applicability of the approach.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: ANLP
• Authors: Violetta Cavalli-Sforza, Abdelhadi Soudi, Teruko Mitamura
• Keywords: ANLP 2000, Arabic Inflectional Morphology, Arabic Morphology Generation, Certain Verb Types