Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features

Yuval Marton; Nizar Habash; Owen Rambow

Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features

Yuval Marton, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow

Computer Science

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Abstract

We explore the contribution of morphological features - both lexical and inflectional - to dependency parsing of Arabic, a morphologically rich language. Using controlled experiments, we find that definiteness, person, number, gender, and the undiacritzed lemma are most helpful for parsing on automatically tagged input. We further contrast the contribution of form-based and functional features, and show that functional gender and number (e.g., "broken plurals") and the related rationality feature improve over form-based features. It is the first time functional morphological features are used for Arabic NLP.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies
Pages	1586-1596
Number of pages	11
State	Published - 2011
Event	49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011 - Portland, OR, United States Duration: Jun 19 2011 → Jun 24 2011

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Name	ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies
Volume	1

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Other	49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011
Country/Territory	United States
City	Portland, OR
Period	6/19/11 → 6/24/11

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Marton, Y., Habash, N., & Rambow, O. (2011). Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features. In ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 1586-1596). (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; Vol. 1).

Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features. / Marton, Yuval; Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen.
ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2011. p. 1586-1596 (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies; Vol. 1).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Marton, Y, Habash, N & Rambow, O 2011, Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features. in ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, vol. 1, pp. 1586-1596, 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, ACL-HLT 2011, Portland, OR, United States, 6/19/11.

Marton Y, Habash N, Rambow O. Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features. In ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2011. p. 1586-1596. (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies).

Marton, Yuval ; Habash, Nizar ; Rambow, Owen. / Improving Arabic dependency parsing with form-based and functional morphological features. ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. 2011. pp. 1586-1596 (ACL-HLT 2011 - Proceedings of the 49th Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies).

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