Identifying broken plurals in unvowelised Arabic text

Proceedings of the 2004 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing, EMNLP 2004 - A meeting of SIGDAT, a Special Interest Group of the ACL held in conjunction with ACL 2004

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 246-253

  Goweder, Abduelbaset ^a   Poesio, Massimo ^a   de Roeck, Anne ^b   Reynolds, Jeff ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

AFFIX STRIPPING; ARABIC TEXTS; ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; MODERN STANDARDS; PERFORMANCE; PROBLEMATIC ISSUES; STANDARD ARABICS; STEMMING ALGORITHMS; TEST SETS;

INFORMATION RETRIEVAL;

EID: 84875493116     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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