Abstract
This paper presents an Arabic Morphological Analyzer and its implementation in clp(FD), a constraint logic programming language. The Morphological Analyzer (MA) represents a component of an architecture which can process unrestricted text from a source such as Internet. The morphological analyzer uses a constraint-based model to represent the morphological rules for verbs and nouns, a matching algorithm to isolate the affixes and the root of a given word-form, and a linguistic knowledge base consisting in lists of markers. The morphological rules fall into two categories: the regular morphological rules of the Arabic grammar and the exception rules that represent the language exceptions. clp(FD) is particularly suitable for the implementation of our system thanks to its double reasoning: symbolic reasoning expresses the logic properties of the problem and facilitates the implementation of a the linguistic knowledge base, and heuristics, while constraint satisfaction reasoning on finite domains uses constraint propagation to keep the search space manageable.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 763-769 |
Number of pages | 7 |
Journal | Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (Subseries of Lecture Notes in Computer Science) |
Volume | 2773 PART 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2003 |
Event | 7th International Conference, KES 2003 - Oxford, United Kingdom Duration: Sept 3 2003 → Sept 5 2003 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Theoretical Computer Science
- General Computer Science