Younes Samih

3 paper cards in Mova's library · 2012–2017

Younes Samih wrote 3 of the papers Mova reads, in 2012–2017, most of them on Treebanks; often with Ahmed Abdelali, Hamdy Mubarak, Kareem Darwish.

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

Topics: Treebanks 1

Papers

A Neural Architecture for Dialectal Arabic Segmentation (2017)
Egyptian Arabic in tweets has no standard spelling and few annotated resources, and the clitics attached to its verbs are missed by MSA tools.
Arabic Multi-Dialect Segmentation: bi-LSTM-CRF vs. SVM (2017)
The paper segments four Arabic dialects (Egyptian, Levantine, Gulf, Maghrebi) from raw Twitter text. Only about 350 manually segmented tweets per dialect are used for training, with 5-fold cross-validation and a 70/10/20 split. Two approaches are compared. An SVM ranker generates all segmentations of a word from a…
Conversion of Procedural Morphologies to Finite-State Morphologies: A Case Study of Arabic (2012)
The Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer is a Perl program that splits a word into prefix, stem and suffix, checks the pieces against three lexicons and three co-occurrence tables, and retries with spelling variants when lookup fails.