Arabic Computational Morphology Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods

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).

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Con la collaborazione di: Abdelhadi Soudi (Editore), Antal Van Den Bosch (Editore), Günter Joachim Neumann (Editore), Günter Neumann (Editore), Gunter Neumann (Editore), Antal van den Bosch (Editore), Anta van den Bosch (Editore)
• Editore: Springer Netherlands
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.07.2009
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Linguistica generale e comparata
• EAN: 9781402060458
• ISBN: 978-1-4020-6045-8
• Numero di pagine: 308
• Illustrazioni: VIII, 308 p.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.7 x 24.3 x 2.3 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 621 g
• Serie: Text, Speech and Language Technology > 38; Text, Speech and Language Tech > 38; Text, Speech and Language Technology
• Categorie: B, Linguistics, Natürliche Sprachen und maschinelle Übersetzung, Data Warehousing, Informationsrückgewinnung, Information Retrieval, Information Retrieval, Arabic, Social Sciences, Linguistics, general, Language: reference & general, Language: history & general works, Information Storage and Retrieval, Computational Linguistics, Arabic language, Natural language & machine translation, Natural Language Processing (NLP), Natural language processing (Computer science), Oriental or Semitic Languages, Semitic Languages, Afroasiatische Sprachen