Extracting an arabic lexicon from arabic newspaper text

Computers and the Humanities

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 191-221

  Abuleil, Saleem ^a   Evens, Martha ^b  

^a CHICAGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ILLINOIS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology analyzer; Parser; Part of speech; Proper nouns; Tokenizer

Indexed keywords

EID: 32044466673     PISSN: 00104817     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1014368121689     Document Type: Article

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