Research Catalog

Title

Introduction to Arabic natural language processing / Nizar Y. Habash.

Author

Habash, Nizar Y.

Publication

[San Rafael, Calif.] : Morgan & Claypool Publishers, c2010.

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Details

Description

xiv, 167 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

"This 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."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ; #10

Uniform Title

Synthesis lectures on human language technologies ; lecture #10.

Subjects

• Arabic language
• Natural language processing (Computer science)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 147-166).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

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 -- Arabic NLP repositories and networking resources -- Arabic NLP books and references -- Arabic NLP corpora and lexica -- Arabic NLP tools -- Important Arabic NLP acronyms.

ISBN

• 9781598297959
• 1598297953

OCLC

• 681406176
• SCSB-11841075

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library