Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic

NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 426-432

  Habash, Nizar ^a   Roth, Ryan ^a   Rambow, Owen ^a   Eskander, Ramy ^a   Tomeh, Nadi ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS; SPEECH TRANSMISSION;

ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING; DIALECTAL ARABICS; EGYPTIANS; MODERN STANDARDS; MORPHOLOGICAL ANALYSIS; MORPHOLOGICAL DISAMBIGUATION; MORPHOLOGICAL TAGGER; NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING TOOLS; STANDARD ARABICS; STATE OF THE ART;

MACHINE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84906924446     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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