Tips and Tricks

The Challenge of Arabic for NLP/MT conference organized in London by The British Computer Society is over. Let us give a couple of new links:

Tips and Tricks of the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank

[paper] [slides] Otakar Smrž

An Ambiguity-Controlled Morphological Analyzer for Modern Standard Arabic Modeling Finite State Networks

[www] Mohammed A. Attia

Standard Arabic formalization and linguistic platform for its analysis

[www] Slim Mesfar

In this context, the work on morphology by Columbia's Arabic Dialect Modeling Group should also be noted:

MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects

[pdf] Nizar Habash and Owen Rambow

Morphological Analysis and Generation for Arabic Dialects

[pdf] Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow and George Kiraz