Introduction to Arabic Natural Language ProcessingThis book provides system developers and researchers in natural language processing and computational linguistics with the necessary background information for working with the Arabic language. The goal is to introduce Arabic linguistic phenomena and review the state-of-the-art in Arabic processing. The book discusses Arabic script, phonology, orthography, morphology, syntax and semantics, with a final chapter on machine translation issues. The chapter sizes correspond more or less to what is linguistically distinctive about Arabic, with morphology getting the lion's share, followed by Arabic script. No previous knowledge of Arabic is needed. This book is designed for computer scientists and linguists alike. The focus of the book is on Modern Standard Arabic; however, notes on practical issues related to Arabic dialects and languages written in the Arabic script are presented in different chapters. Table of Contents: What is "Arabic"? / Arabic Script / Arabic Phonology and Orthography / Arabic Morphology / Computational Morphology Tasks / Arabic Syntax / A Note on Arabic Semantics / A Note on Arabic and Machine Translation |
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Contents
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Arabic Script | 5 |
Arabic Phonology and Orthography | 27 |
Arabic Morphology | 39 |
Computational Morphology Tasks | 65 |
Arabic Syntax | 93 |
A Note on Arabic Semantics | 113 |
A Note on Arabic and Machine Translation | 119 |
Arabic NLP Repositories and Networking Resources | 125 |
Arabic NLP Books and References | 129 |
Arabic NLP Corpora and Lexica | 133 |
Arabic NLP Tools | 141 |
Important Arabic NLP Acronyms | 143 |
Bibliography | 147 |
Authors Biography | 167 |
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adjectives affixes Alif Alif-Maqsura Almorgeana Amira analyzer annotated Arabic dialects Arabic Language Arabic Morphological Arabic NLP Arabic script Arabic words Arabic-English Arg1 Bama basic Buckwalter transliteration CATiB classification clitics complex computational consonant defined definite article diacritics Dictionary disambiguation discuss ElixirFM ELRA Catalog encoding English example feminine Figure final first form-based functional morphology Hamza Idafa indefinite inflectional Language Resources lemma letter form letter marks letter shapes Levantine Arabic lexeme lexical lexicon linguistic machine translation Mada Magead masculine Modern Standard Arabic modified morphemes morphological analysis Named Entity Recognition Natural Language Processing nominal noun nunation PADT parsing PATB pattern Penn Arabic Treebank phonemes phonology phrase plural prefix preposition proclitic pronominal enclitic pronoun Propbank representation researchers root Section semantic sentence short vowels singular specific spelling Standard Arabic stem suffix synsets syntactic syntax Ta-Marbuta task tokenization scheme typically Unicode V-Sent variants verb verbal WordNet zArwA