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  <Title>MAGEAD: A Morphological Analyzer and Generator for the Arabic Dialects</Title>
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9 Outlook
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    <Paragraph position="0"> We have described a morphological analyzer for Arabic and its dialects which decomposes word forms into the templatic morphemes and relates  morphemes to strings. We have evaluated the current state of the implementation both for MSA and for Levantine, both quantitatively and in a detailed error analysis, and have shown that we have met our design objectives of having a flexible analyzer which can be used on a new dialect in the absence of a lexicon and with a restrained amount of manual knowledge engineering needed.</Paragraph>
    <Paragraph position="1"> In ongoing work, we are populating MAGEAD with more knowledge (morphemes and rules) for MSA nouns and other parts of speech, for more of Levantine, and for more dialects. We intend to include a full phonological representation for Levantine (including short vowels). In future work, we will investigate the derivation of words with morphemes from more than one variant (code switching). We will also investigate ways of using morphologically tagged corpora to assign weights to the arcs in the transducer so that the analyses returned by MAGEAD are ranked.</Paragraph>
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