Re: [Aramorph-users] A possible contribution

[Pierrick Brihaye]

Hi,

yousef Elarian a écrit :

> I have run AraMorph on large corpora. Naturally, it couldn't analyze 
> some words.

I'm always interested to know where it fails and, especially, how it fails.

> I am thinking of extending the original set of Arabic stems 
> in the stem dictionary.

Sure. We've already discussed of using a convenient format for such 
extensions : XML sounds of course the most promising (that's the 
solution retained by Tim Buckwalter's Aramorph 2.0).

> The unrecognized words can be stemmed using an
> Arabic stemmer.

Why not use the current internal mechanisms provided by Java Aramorph ? 
It could at least help you by detecting the valid prefix/suffix 
combinations.

> Does it interest you in this mailing 
> list? 

Everything that could actually go into Aramorph for Java is interesting.

> Who can help most if not in this mailing list? 

He who wrote the stemmer ?

> Who can help me running the Perl scripts?

The *huge* Perl community ?

[HUGE snip of the tail quotation : I'm quite picky on netiquette rules]

Cheers,

p.b.