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Project description

Objective

To design and implement a finite-state rule based morphological analyzer for Hebrew which can be easily extended and improved.

Researchers

Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner

Status

Complete

Funding

Israeli Ministry of Science and Technology, as part of the Knowledge Center for Hebrew Language Telecommunication

Abstract

The morphological analyzer is distributed through the Knowledge Center for Processing Hebrew.

Thanks are due to Danny Shacham, Yael Cohen-Sygal and Yaniv Eitany.

Publications

• Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner. A finite-state morphological grammar of Hebrew. Natural Language Engineering 14(2):173-190, April 2008. PDF (copyright Cambridge University Press).
• Alon Itai and Shuly Wintner. Language resources for Hebrew. Language Resources and Evaluation 42(1):75-98, March 2008. PDF (The original publication is available at www.springerlink.com.)
• Alon Itai, Shuly Wintner and Shlomo Yona. A Computational Lexicon of Contemporary Hebrew. In Proceedings of LREC-2006, Genoa, Italy, May 2006. PDF.
• Shlomo Yona and Shuly Wintner. A finite-state morphological grammar of Hebrew. In Proceedings of the ACL-2005 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, Ann Arbor, MI, June 2005. [pdf]
• Shlomo Yona. A finite-state based morphological analyzer for Hebrew. November 2004. University of Haifa M.Sc. Thesis. [pdf]

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