Build fast and accurate lemmatization for Arabic

Hamdy Mubarak*

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Abstract

In this paper we describe the complexity of building a lemmatizer for Arabic which has a rich and complex morphology, and show some differences between lemmatization and surface stemming, i.e. removing prefixes and suffixes from words. We discuss the need for a fast and accurate lammatization to enhance Arabic Information Retrieval results. We also introduce a new dataset that can be used to test lemmatization accuracy, and an efficient lemmatization algorithm that outperforms state-of-the-art Arabic lemmatization in terms of accuracy and speed. We share the dataset and the code for research purposes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
EditorsHitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Stelios Piperidis, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Koiti Hasida, Helene Mazo, Khalid Choukri, Sara Goggi, Joseph Mariani, Asuncion Moreno, Nicoletta Calzolari, Jan Odijk, Takenobu Tokunaga
PublisherEuropean Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages1128-1132
Number of pages5
ISBN (Electronic)9791095546009
Publication statusPublished - 2019
Event11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan
Duration: 7 May 201812 May 2018

Publication series

NameLREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Conference

Conference11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityMiyazaki
Period7/05/1812/05/18

Keywords

  • Arabic NLP
  • Diactitization
  • Information Retrieval
  • Lemmatization
  • Stemming

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