Abstract
The interaction between roots and patterns in Arabic has intrigued lexicographers and morphologists for centuries. While roots provide the consonantal building blocks, patterns provide the syllabic vocalic moulds. While roots provide abstract semantic classes, patterns realize these classes in specific instances. In this way both roots and patterns are indispensable for understanding the derivational, morphological and, to some extent, the cognitive aspects of the Arabic language. In this paper we perform lemmatization (a high-level lexical processing) without relying on a lookup dictionary. We use a hybrid approach that consists of a machine learning classifier to predict the lemma pattern for a given stem, and mapping rules to convert stems to their respective lemmas with the vocalization defined by the pattern.- Anthology ID:
- W16-5306
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex - V)
- Month:
- December
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Osaka, Japan
- Editors:
- Michael Zock, Alessandro Lenci, Stefan Evert
- Venue:
- CogALex
- SIG:
- SIGLEX
- Publisher:
- The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee
- Note:
- Pages:
- 40–50
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/W16-5306
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Mohammed Attia, Ayah Zirikly, and Mona Diab. 2016. The Power of Language Music: Arabic Lemmatization through Patterns. In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Cognitive Aspects of the Lexicon (CogALex - V), pages 40–50, Osaka, Japan. The COLING 2016 Organizing Committee.
- Cite (Informal):
- The Power of Language Music: Arabic Lemmatization through Patterns (Attia et al., CogALex 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/nschneid-patch-4/W16-5306.pdf