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Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods

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Soudi, A., Neumann, G., Bosch, A.v. (2007). Arabic Computational Morphology: Knowledge-based and Empirical Methods. In: Soudi, A., Bosch, A.v., Neumann, G. (eds) Arabic Computational Morphology. Text, Speech and Language Technology, vol 38. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-6046-5_1

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