Presentation of a Model for the Segmentation of Arabic

Ghenimi, A.; Cardey, S.

Revue Maghrébine des Langues
Volume 5, Numéro 1, Pages 88-105
2007-12-31

Presentation Of A Model For The Segmentation Of Arabic

Abstract

Whatever the purpose concerns the understanding, the summarizing or the translation of a text, the machine starts by analyzing it. The analysis starts, in its turn, by the segmentation of this text, before starting possible labelling of the segmented units. The segmentation consists, in the case of Arabic, of dividing up the text being processed into paragraphs and sentences, the sentences into words, then the words into affixes and radicals. In this paper, we present the design of a model of segmentation for voweled or unvoweled 'Standard Modern Arabic (SMA)'. We present the criteria, explain the algorithm used to achieve the task and illustrate with examples segmented by an implementation of the model.