A morphologically sensitive clustering algorithm for identifying Arabic roots

Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics

Volumn 2000-October, Issue , 2000, Pages

  De Roeck, Anne N ^a   Al Fares, Waleed ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b College of Business Studies ^*  (Kuwait)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

ARABIC TEXTS; CLUSTERINGS; SIMILARITY COEFFICIENTS; TWO-STAGE ALGORITHM; WORD-PAIRS;

CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS;

EID: 84884575840     PISSN: 0736587X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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