Year: 2005
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: Morphological analysis is a crucial component of several natural language processing tasks, especially for languages with a highly productive morphology, where stipulating a full lexicon of surface forms is not feasible.We describe HAMSAH (HAifa Morphological System for Analyzing Hebrew), a morphological processor for Modern Hebrew, based on finite-state linguistically motivated rules and a broad coverage lexicon.The set of rules comprehensively covers the morphological, morpho-phonological and orthographic phenomena that are observable in contemporary Hebrew texts.Reliance on finite-state technology facilitates the construction of a highly efficient, completely bidirectional system for analysis and generation.HAMSAH is currently the broadest-coverage and most accurate freely-available system for Hebrew.
Authors: Shlomo Yona, Shuly Wintner
Institution: University of Haifa
Language: English
Subfield: Artificial Intelligence
Field: Computer Science
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
OpenAlex ID: W2176700180