Morphotactic Modeling in an Open-source Multi-dialectal Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator

Nizar Habash, Reham Marzouk, Christian Khairallah, Salam Khalifa


Abstract
Arabic is a morphologically rich and complex language, with numerous dialectal variants. Previous efforts on Arabic morphology modeling focused on specific variants and specific domains using a range of techniques with different degrees of linguistic modeling transparency. In this paper we propose a new approach to modeling Arabic morphology with an eye towards multi-dialectness, resource openness, and easy extensibility and use. We demonstrate our approach by modeling verbs from Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic, within a common framework, and with high coverage.
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2022.sigmorphon-1.10
Volume:
Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology
Month:
July
Year:
2022
Address:
Seattle, Washington
Editors:
Garrett Nicolai, Eleanor Chodroff
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SIGMORPHON
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SIGMORPHON
Publisher:
Association for Computational Linguistics
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Pages:
92–102
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URL:
https://aclanthology.org/2022.sigmorphon-1.10
DOI:
10.18653/v1/2022.sigmorphon-1.10
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Nizar Habash, Reham Marzouk, Christian Khairallah, and Salam Khalifa. 2022. Morphotactic Modeling in an Open-source Multi-dialectal Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator. In Proceedings of the 19th SIGMORPHON Workshop on Computational Research in Phonetics, Phonology, and Morphology, pages 92–102, Seattle, Washington. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Morphotactic Modeling in an Open-source Multi-dialectal Arabic Morphological Analyzer and Generator (Habash et al., SIGMORPHON 2022)
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 CAMeL-Lab/camel_morph