Khalil Sima'an

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2005–2010

Khalil Sima'an wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2005–2010, most of them on Part-of-speech tagging; often with Yoad Winter, Reut Tsarfaty, Roy Bar-Haim.

The profile is the library's match of the name; two people with one name are not always told apart.

Papers

Modeling Morphosyntactic Agreement in Constituency-Based Parsing of Modern Hebrew (2010)
The question is whether agreement features (gender, number, person, definiteness, accusativity) help a statistical parser of Hebrew, and how they should be represented.
Smoothing a Lexicon-based POS Tagger for Arabic and Hebrew (2007)
The authors port Bar-Haim et al.'s Hebrew HMM tagger (MorphTagger) to Modern Standard Arabic by swapping in Buckwalter's analyser and training on the Arabic Treebank.
Choosing an Optimal Architecture for Segmentation and POS-Tagging of Modern Hebrew (2005)
Bar-Haim et al. build an HMM segmenter and POS tagger for Modern Hebrew from a morphological analyser and a very small tagged corpus (the Hebrew Treebank, from Ha'aretz, with under 30K words per training fold), plus about 340K untagged words. They compare two tokenisations: a word-level model, where each tag is a…