LDC standard Arabic morphological analyzer (SAMA), version 3.1

Authors:Mohamed Maamouri, Linguistic Data Consortium

Summary:"The LDC standard Arabic morphological analyzer (SAMA) version 3.1 was developed by researchers at LDC. SAMA 3.1 is based on, and updates, Buckwalter Arabic morphological analyzer (BAMA) 2.0 (LDC2004L02), which was developed by Tim Buckwalter. Since this is the first public release of SAMA, it has been numbered continuously to reflect the continuity between this release and previous BAMA releases. SAMA 3.1 is a software tool for the morphological analysis of standard Arabic. SAMA 3.1 considers each Arabic word token in all possible 'prefix-stem-suffix' segmentations, and lists all known/possible annotation solutions, with assignment of all diacritic marks, morpheme boundaries (separating clitics and inflectional morphemes from stems), and all part-of-speech (POS) labels and glosses for each morpheme segment. The generated output may then be reviewed by users, and the most appropriate annotation selected from among several choices."--LDC online catalogue