Integrated morphological and syntactic disambiguation for Modern Hebrew

  • Authors:
  • Reut Tsarfaty

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

  • Venue:
  • COLING ACL '06 Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on computational Linguistics and 44th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Student Research Workshop
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

Current parsing models are not immediately applicable for languages that exhibit strong interaction between morphology and syntax, e.g., Modern Hebrew (MH), Arabic and other Semitic languages. This work represents a first attempt at modeling morphological-syntactic interaction in a generative probabilistic framework to allow for MH parsing. We show that morphological information selected in tandem with syntactic categories is instrumental for parsing Semitic languages. We further show that redundant morphological information helps syntactic disambiguation.