Arabic Morphological Analysis and Generation

Developers

The Arabic Morphology system began as a Two-Level Morphological Analyzer at ALPNET (né ALPS), a company in Provo, Utah, USA that developed a number of natural-language processing systems. The Arabic Project at ALPNET ran from about mid-1988 to early 1990 and involved the following principal developers:

• Ken Beesley, Computational Linguist and Project Manager
• Tim Buckwalter, Lexicographer and Arabic Informant
• Stuart Newton, IBM Systems Programmer

Buckwalter also supervised two part-time lexicographers, Osama Shabaneh and Derek Foxley.

Although this project produced three conference papers and a significant commercial product, it is not well known.

The Xerox Research Centre Europe (XRCE) (né Rank Xerox Research Centre) licensed the surviving ALPNET dictionaries, rules and documentation in late 1995. Ken Beesley, then and now at XRCE, redesigned and rebuilt the system using Xerox Finite-State Technology. He was fortunate again to get help, this time via email, from Tim Buckwalter's Qamus consulting company.

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