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Picking Up Where the Linguist Left Off: Mapping Morphology to Phonology through Learning the Residuals

  • Salam Khalifa
  • , Abed Qaddoumi
  • , Ellen Broselow
  • , Owen Rambow
  • Stony Brook University

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingConference contributionpeer-review

1 Scopus citations

Abstract

Learning morphophonological mappings between the spoken form of a language and its underlying morphological structures is crucial for enriching resources for morphologically rich languages like Arabic. In this work, we focus on Egyptian Arabic as our case study and explore the integration of linguistic knowledge with a neural transformer model. Our approach involves learning to correct the residual errors from hand-crafted rules to predict the spoken form from a given underlying morphological representation. We demonstrate that using a minimal set of rules, we can effectively recover errors even in very low-resource settings.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference
EditorsNizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Ramy Eskander, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Ahmed Abdelali, Samia Touileb, Injy Hamed, Yaser Onaizan, Bashar Alhafni, Wissam Antoun, Salam Khalifa, Hatem Haddad, Imed Zitouni, Badr AlKhamissi, Rawan Almatham, Khalil Mrini
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages258-264
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9798891761322
StatePublished - 2024
Event2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024 - Bangkok, Thailand
Duration: Aug 16 2024 → …

Publication series

NameArabicNLP 2024 - 2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, Proceedings of the Conference

Conference

Conference2nd Arabic Natural Language Processing Conference, ArabicNLP 2024
Country/TerritoryThailand
CityBangkok
Period08/16/24 → …

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