Uzzi Ornan

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 1995–2014

Uzzi Ornan wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 1995–2014; often with Alon Itai, Moshe Levinger.

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

Papers

Innovation of Verbs in Hebrew (2014)
A short paper on how Hebrew makes new verbs. Hebrew words sit in a root-pattern array: several thousand consonant roots cross 100–120 noun patterns, but only seven verb patterns. When a foreign noun has no verb form, speakers apply "squeezing": the vowels are removed from the noun, the remaining consonants become a…
A Morphological, Syntactic and Semantic Search Engine for Hebrew Texts (2002)
In unpointed Hebrew a string has on average about three readings, and a plain string search returns mostly wrong hits.
Learning Morpho-Lexical Probabilities from an Untagged Corpus with an Application to Hebrew (1995)
Unpointed Hebrew writing leaves most vowels out, so many word tokens have several morphological analyses; in a sample of press text about 55% of tokens were ambiguous.