Improving Arabic Dependency Parsing with Lexical and Inflectional Morphological Features

1st Workshop on Statistical Parsing of Morphologically-Rich Languages, SPMRL 2010 - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 13-21

  Marton, Yuval ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a   Rambow, Owen ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

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CONTROLLED EXPERIMENT; DEPENDENCY PARSING; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; PREDICTION ACCURACY; SIMPLE++;

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