Arabic-L:LING:Semantic Ambiguitiy Software Response

[Dilworth B. Parkinson]

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Date: 11 Jul 2000
From: Jan Hoogland <j.hoogland at let.kun.nl>
Subject: Semantic Ambiguitiy Software Response

>   Hi. Does anyone know of a reliable software that measures the semantic
>ambiguity of a particular text. Best wishes
>Heba
>
Heba,
count the number of words (your word processor can tackle this) devide it
by 5 and multiply with 100 and you'll know the ambiguity of any Arabic text.
More serious now: I think before ambiguity can be measured, we first need a
reliable diacritizer to add vowels to unvoweled Arabic text. As far as I
know, such a tool is not available, although Sakhr has been working on it.
Does anyone have recent information on this?

Jan

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