Analysis of the Arabic Broken Plural and Diminutive

1995/12/09 by George Kiraz, George A. Kiraz, Kiraz, George A.
Arts and Humanities · Computer Science · Social Sciences · #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Historical and Linguistic Studies #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis #cmp-lg #cs.CL

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.cmp-lg/9512001

7 pages, uuencoded compressed .ps file, ICEMCO-96: 5th Inter. Conf. and Exhibition on Multi-Lingual Computing, Cambridge

arxiv created 1995/12/09 · openalex publication_date 1995/12/09 · arxiv updated 2009/11/30 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

This paper demonstrates how the challenging problem of the Arabic broken plural and diminutive can be handled under a multi-tape two-level model, an extension to two-level morphology.

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