Introduction to Arabic natural language processing

Synthesis Lectures on Human Language Technologies

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-185

  Habash, Nizar Y ^a  

^a Howard Hughes Medical Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

Arabic; Computational linguistics; Machine translation; Morphology; Natural language processing; Orthography; Phonology; Script; Semantics; Syntax

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION; MORPHOLOGY; SEMANTICS; SYNTACTICS;

ARABIC; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHONOLOGY; SCRIPT; SYNTAX;

NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING SYSTEMS;

EID: 85044413948     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19474040     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.2200/S00277ED1V01Y201008HLT010     Document Type: Review

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