A new approach to the extraction of multiword terms from arabic texts

International Review on Computers and Software

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 129-133

  Al Taani, Ahmad T ^a  

^a YARMOUK UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

Author keywords

Arabic language processing (nlp); Compound names; Multi word terms (mwts); Personal names

Indexed keywords

ARABIC LANGUAGE PROCESSING; ARABIC TEXTS; COMPOUND NAMES; LINGUISTIC RULES; MACHINE TRANSLATION SYSTEMS; MULTI-WORD; MULTIWORD TERMS; NEW APPROACHES; PERSONAL NAMES; ROBUST METHODS; WORD MATCHING;

INFORMATION THEORY;

EID: 78951472456     PISSN: 18286003     EISSN: 18286011     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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