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Document Type |
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Article In Journal |
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Document Title |
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An Arabic Morphological Analyzer/Synthesizer محلل ومركب صرفي عربي |
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Subject |
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Electrical And Computer Engineering |
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Document Language |
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English |
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Abstract |
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Morphology is an essential element in processing natural
language. As morphology in Arabic is highly derivational, morphological
analysis/synthesis is systematic and can be easily automated.
The objective of this research work is to design and implement a
morphological analyzer/synthesizer (MAS) for Arabic. In analysis
mode, given a word, MAS determines the following properties of
words: 1) type (noun, verb, article), 2) person, number and gender (for
verbs and nouns), 3) tense of verb (past, present, imperative), 4) type
of article (interrogative, prepositional, etc.), 5) root, and derivation
(for verbs and nouns), and 6) type and identity of affixes (prefix, infix,
suffix). In synthesis mode, the above properties are given and the
corresponding word is constructed.
MAS is based on linguistic principles of Arabic morphology. It is
designed as three modules for particles, nouns and verbs respectively.
The modules consist of rules that encode the linguistic principles of
word construction in Arabic. The mode (analysis or synthesis) of operation
is automatically determined by the values associated with the
word and its properties. For a word of size n of a particular type
(noun, verb or article), the possible derivations (determined according
to the linguistic principles) are implemented as ordered (according to
their frequencies of occurrence) Prolog predicates. The size of the
word and frequency of occurrence of the corresponding derivation are
used to minimize the search time. |
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ISSN |
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1319-1047 |
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Journal Name |
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Engineering Sciences Journal |
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Volume |
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13 |
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Issue Number |
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1 |
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Publishing Year |
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1421 AH
2001 AD |
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Number Of Pages |
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22 |
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Article Type |
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Article |
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Added Date |
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Sunday, October 11, 2009 |
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