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Build Fast and Accurate Lemmatization for Arabic

Computation and Language 2017-10-19 v1

Abstract

In this paper we describe the complexity of building a lemmatizer for Arabic which has a rich and complex derivational morphology, and we discuss the need for a fast and accurate lammatization to enhance Arabic Information Retrieval (IR) results. We also introduce a new data set 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 data set and the code for public.

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@article{arxiv.1710.06700,
  title  = {Build Fast and Accurate Lemmatization for Arabic},
  author = {Hamdy Mubarak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.06700},
  year   = {2017}
}
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