Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew Search Systems (1999)
| Venue: | In Proceeding of NGITS-99 |
| Citations: | 8 - 0 self |
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@INPROCEEDINGS{Carmel99morphologicaldisambiguation,
author = {David Carmel and Yoelle S. Maarek},
title = {Morphological Disambiguation for Hebrew Search Systems},
booktitle = {In Proceeding of NGITS-99},
year = {1999},
pages = {312--326},
publisher = {Springer}
}
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Abstract
. In this work we describe a new approach for morphological disambiguation to enable linguistic indexing for Hebrew search systems. We describe a Hebrew Morphological Disambiguator (HMD or Hemed for short) based on statistical data gathered from large Hebrew corpora. We show how to integrate HMD with a search engine to enable linguistic search for Hebrew. We report some experimental results demonstrating the the superiority of linguistic search over string-matching search, and the contribution of morphological disambiguation to the quality of search result. 1 Background and Motivation With the advent of the Web, more and more textual information is being made available on line, and Information Retrieval (IR) systems are becoming of crucial importance to search through the vast amount of information. Most state-ofthe -art IR systems operate on a canonical representation of documents called a profile that consists of a list (or a vector in the commonly used vector space model [...
