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Alserag: An Automatic Diacritization System for Arabic

Author : Sameh Alansary

Published in: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

Diacritization of written text has a significant impact on Arabic NLP applications. We present an approach to Arabic automatic diacritization that integrates morphological analysis with shallow syntactic analysis. The developed system (Alserag) is a rule based system. The system depends on three modules in order to provide fully diacritized Arabic words namely, morphological analysis module, syntactic analysis module and morph-phonological processing module. The results of the system were evaluated for accuracy against the reference using two metrics; diacritization error rate (DER) and word error rate (WER). The DER measurement was 8.68 % while WER measurement was 18.63 %. The system is benchmarked against three known diacritization systems; Harakat, Mishkal, and Aldoaly.

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Metadata
Title
Alserag: An Automatic Diacritization System for Arabic
Author
Sameh Alansary
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Systems and Informatics 2016

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-48307-8

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-48308-5

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48308-5_18

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