Abstract
Morphological analysis is a crucial component of several natural language processing tasks, especially for languages with a highly productive morphology, where stipulating a full lexicon of surface forms is not feasible. We describe HAMSAH (HAifa Morphological System for Analyzing Hebrew), a morphological processor for Modern Hebrew, based on finite-state linguistically motivated rules and a broad coverage lexicon. The set of rules comprehensively covers the morphological, morpho-phonological and orthographic phenomena that are observable in contemporary Hebrew texts. Reliance on finite-state technology facilitates the construction of a highly efficient, completely bidirectional system for analysis and generation. HAMSAH is currently the broadest-coverage and most accurate freely-available system for Hebrew.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages |
| Place of Publication | USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Pages | 9-16 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| State | Published - 2005 |
| Event | 2005 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@ACL 2005 - Ann Arbor, United States Duration: 29 Jun 2005 → … |
Publication series
| Name | Semitic '05 |
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| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics |
Conference
| Conference | 2005 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@ACL 2005 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Ann Arbor |
| Period | 29/06/05 → … |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This work was funded by the Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, under the auspices of the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew. We are grateful to Yael Cohen-Sygal, Shira Schwartz and Alon Itai for their help.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2005 Association for Computational Linguistics.
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language