2006 Presentations (Communicative Events)

MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects

Habash, Nizar Y.; Rambow, Owen C.

We present MAGEAD, a morphological analyzer and generator for the Arabic language family. Our work is novel in that it explicitly addresses the need for processing the morphology of the dialects. MAGEAD performs an on-line analysis to or generation from a root+pattern+features representation, it has separate phonological and orthographic representations, and it allows for combining morphemes from different dialects. We present a detailed evaluation of MAGEAD.