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Morphological analysis is a vital part of natural language processing applications, there are no definitive standards for evaluating and benchmarking Arabic morphological systems. This paper proposes assessment criteria for evaluating Arabic morphological systems by scrutinizing the input, output and architectural design to enables researchers to evaluate and fairly compare Arabic morphology systems. By scoring some state of the art Arabic morphological analyzers based on the proposed criteria; the accuracy scores showed that the best algorithm failed to achieve a reliable rate. Hence, this paper introduced an enhanced algorithm for resolving the inflected Arabic word, identifies its root, finds its pattern and POS tagging that will reduce the search time considerably and to free up the deficiencies identified by this assessment criteria. The proposed model uses semantic rules of the Arabic language on top of a hybrid sub-model based on two existing algorithms (Al-Khalil and An Improved Arabic morphology analyzer IAMA rules).
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Maabid, A.M., Elghazaly, T., Ghaith, M. (2015). An Enhanced Rule Based Arabic Morphological Analyzer Based on Proposed Assessment Criteria. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Buarque, F., Gelbukh, A., Das, S., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence. ICSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9142. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20469-7_42
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