The next seminar in the series Linguistics Circle Seminar Series will be held on Friday 22 April at 09:30 in Room 256, M.A. Vassalli Conference Centre - Gateway Building (GW256). During the seminar Nizar Habash, New York University, Abu Dhabi will talk about 'Morphological Processing of Arabic and its Dialects'.
The Arabic language can be quite challenging for automatic processing. Arabic morphology is rich and complex and its orthography is underspecified causing a high degree of ambiguity. Arabic dialects, the primarily spoken non-standard varieties of Arabic, contribute more challenges. While some aspects of their morphology are simpler than Standard Arabic, other aspects are more complex. Additionally, they have no standard orthographies and less computational resources than Standard Arabic. In this talk, we discuss these challenges and present and demo the state-of-the-art in Arabic and Arabic dialect morphological analysis and disambiguation.
