Arabic morphology using only finite-state operations

  • Authors:
  • Kenneth R. Beesley

  • Affiliations:
  • Xerox Research Centre Europe, Meylan, France

  • Venue:
  • Semitic '98 Proceedings of the Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

Finite-state morphology has been successful in the description and computational implementation of a wide variety of natural languages. However, the particular challenges of Arabic, and the limitations of some implementations of finite-state morphology, have led many researchers to believe that finite-state power was not sufficient to handle Arabic and other Semitic morphology. This paper illustrates how the morphotactics and the variation rules of Arabic have been described using only finite-state operations and how this approach has been implemented in a significant morphological analyzer/generator.