Semitic Linguistic Phenomena and Variations
Members of the Semitic language family share a variety of linguistic phenomena that distinguish them from other language families. These include the root-pattern model of word derivation, vowel-deprived orthographic conventions, and other syntactic and morphological phenomena that require special handling for natural language processing and specifically machine translation. This talk will survey a range of these phenomena and discuss their variations within the Semitic family by looking at Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Hebrew and Palestinian Arabic.
(This is an invited talk to the Machine Translation for Semitic Languages Workshop at the MT Summit IX.)
For the colloquium series schedule, see the UMD Computational
Linguistics Colloquium Series web page at http://umiacs.umd.edu/~resnik/cl_colloquium/.
If you are interested in meeting with the speaker, please contact Doug Oard (oard@umiacs.umd.edu).