Computational Morphology and Lexicography Modeling of Modern Standard Arabic Nominals

TL;DR

This paper introduces a comprehensive morphological model for Modern Standard Arabic nominals, addressing complex morphotactic and irregularities challenges, resulting in improved accuracy over existing analyzers.

Contribution

It presents a novel, extensible framework specifically designed for MSA nominals, enhancing morphological analysis and generation capabilities.

Findings

Enhanced accuracy over existing analyzers

Addressed complex morphotactic challenges

Model is publicly available

Abstract

Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) nominals present many morphological and lexical modeling challenges that have not been consistently addressed previously. This paper attempts to define the space of such challenges, and leverage a recently proposed morphological framework to build a comprehensive and extensible model for MSA nominals. Our model design addresses the nominals' intricate morphotactics, as well as their paradigmatic irregularities. Our implementation showcases enhanced accuracy and consistency compared to a commonly used MSA morphological analyzer and generator. We make our models publicly available.