@inproceedings{c923a02afda147b4b077589723675b43,
title = "A Finite-State Morphological Grammar of Hebrew",
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.",
author = "Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner",
year = "2005",
language = "אנגלית",
series = "Semitic '05",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
pages = "9–16",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the ACL Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages",
}