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NAACL
2010
13 years 9 months ago
Automatic Diacritization for Low-Resource Languages Using a Hybrid Word and Consonant CMM
We are interested in diacritizing Semitic languages, especially Syriac, using only diacritized texts. Previous methods have required the use of tools such as part-of-speech tagger...
Robbie Haertel, Peter McClanahan, Eric K. Ringger
EMNLP
2010
13 years 9 months ago
A Probabilistic Morphological Analyzer for Syriac
We define a probabilistic morphological analyzer using a data-driven approach for Syriac in order to facilitate the creation of an annotated corpus. Syriac is an under-resourced S...
Peter McClanahan, George Busby, Robbie Haertel, Kr...
ACL
2006
14 years 25 days ago
MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects
We present MAGEAD, a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family. Our work is novel in that it explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology ...
Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow
LREC
2008
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14 years 26 days ago
Improving NER in Arabic Using a Morphological Tagger
We discuss a named entity recognition system for Arabic, and show how we incorporated the information provided by MADA, a full morphological tagger which uses a morphological anal...
Benjamin Farber, Dayne Freitag, Nizar Habash, Owen...
EMNLP
2008
14 years 27 days ago
Online Acquisition of Japanese Unknown Morphemes using Morphological Constraints
We propose a novel lexicon acquirer that works in concert with the morphological analyzer and has the ability to run in online mode. Every time a sentence is analyzed, it detects ...
Yugo Murawaki, Sadao Kurohashi
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
A Persian Part-Of-Speech Tagger Based on Morphological Analysis
This paper describes a method based on morphological analysis of words for a Persian Part-Of-Speech (POS) tagging system. This is a main part of a process for expanding a large Pe...
Mahdi Mohseni, Behrouz Minaei-Bidgoli
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
Fine-Grain Morphological Analyzer and Part-of-Speech Tagger for Arabic Text
Morphological analyzers and part-of-speech taggers are key technologies for most text analysis applications. Our aim is to develop a part-of-speech tagger for annotating a wide ra...
Majdi Sawalha, Eric Atwell
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
Expanding the Lexicon for a Resource-Poor Language Using a Morphological Analyzer and a Web Crawler
Resource-poor languages may suffer from a lack of any of the basic resources that are fundamental to computational linguistics, including an adequate digital lexicon. Given the re...
Michael Gasser
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
Morphological Analysis and Generation of Arabic Nouns: A Morphemic Functional Approach
MAGEAD is a morphological analyzer and generator for Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and its dialects. We introduced MAGEAD in previous work with an implementation of MSA and Levanti...
Mohamed Altantawy, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Ibra...
LREC
2010
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14 years 27 days ago
Linguistically Motivated Unsupervised Segmentation for Machine Translation
In this paper we use statistical machine translation and morphology information from two different morphological analyzers to try to improve translation quality by linguistically ...
Mark Fishel, Harri Kirik