Modifying a natural language processing system for European languages to treat Arabic in information processing and information retrieval applications

Authors:
Gregory Grefenstette;Nasredine Semmar;Faïza Elkateb-Gara
Affiliations:
Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (CEA LIST), Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France;Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (CEA LIST), Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France;Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (CEA LIST), Fontenay-aux-Roses Cedex, France
Venue:
Semitic '05 Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages
Year:
2005

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Abstract

The goal of many natural language processing platforms is to be able to someday correctly treat all languages. Each new language, especially one from a new language family, provokes some modification and design changes. Here we present the changes that we had to introduce into our platform designed for European languages in order to handle a Semitic language. Treatment of Arabic was successfully integrated into our cross language information retrieval system, which is visible online.