MADAMIRA: A Fast, Comprehensive Tool for Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation of Arabic

In this paper, we present MADAMIRA, a system for morphological analysis and disambiguation of Arabic that combines some of the best aspects of two previously commonly used systems for Arabic processing, MADA (Habash and Rambow, 2005; Habash et al., 2009;Habash et al., 2013) and AMIRA (Diab et al., 2007).MADAMIRA improves upon the two systems with a more streamlined Java implementation that is more robust, portable, extensible, and is faster than its ancestors by more than an order of magnitude.We also discuss an online demo (see http://nlp.ldeo.columbia.edu/madamira/)that highlights these aspects.