- Contributors vii
- Acknowledgement xi
I Background
- 1 Introduction
Ali Farghaly 3
- 2 The Arabic Language, Arabic Linguistics and Arabic Computational Linguistics
Ali Farghaly 43
II Arabic Lexical Resources
- 3 The Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer
Timothy A. Buckwalter 85
- 4 The Penn Arabic Treebank
Mohamed Maamouri and Ann Bies 103
- 5 The Other Arabic Treebank: Prague Dependencies and Functions
Otakar Smrž and Jan Hajič 137
III Arabic Pattern Recognition
- 6 Finite State Based Arabic Word Segmentation
Jeffrey Sorensen and Imed Zitouni 171
- 7 A Statistical Model for Arabic Mention Detection and Chaining
Imed Zitouni, Xiaoqiang Luo, and Radu Florian 199
- 8 Automatic Speech Recognition Systems for Conversational Arabic
Katrin Kirchhoff and Dimitra Vergyri 237
IV Arabic Machine Translation
- 9 The Language Weaver Arabic to English Statistical Machine Translation System
Alexander Fraser and William Wong 257
- 10 Complementation Structures in Arabic for Rule-Based Machine Translation
Selçuk Köprü and Jude Mil 289
- 11 The AppTek Hybrid Machine Translation System
Hassan Sawaf 311
Index 335