Identifying broken plurals, Irregular gender, and rationality in Arabic text

EACL 2012 - 13th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 675-685

  Alkuhlani, Sarah ^a   Habash, Nizar ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ARABIC TEXTS; AUTOMATIC PREDICTION; BACKOFFS; LEXICAL SEMANTICS; LINGUISTIC FEATURES; MORPHOLOGICAL FEATURES; SYNTACTIC FEATURES; TRAINING DATA;

LINGUISTICS;

EID: 84942619790     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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