New Technique to Support Arabic Noun Morphology: Arabic Noun Classifier System (ANCS)

Many successful attempts have been discussed and implemented in Arabic verb morphology but very few have discussed Arabic noun morphology, particularly for nouns that are not derived from verbs. Most verbs in the Arabic language follow fixed rules that define their morphology and generate their paradigms. Since nouns are not like verbs in the Arabic language, there is no fixed rule to define the morphological information and generate the morphology paradigms for them, instead each group of nouns follows its own pattern. In this paper we describe a new technique to resolve this complexity by classifying the nouns into different groups according to their patterns for singular, plural, masculine and feminine. A method is generated for each group to be used to find the morphological information and to form its paradigm and building a classifier system using a rule base that uses suffix analysis as well as pattern analysis to help the user to classify the nouns and identify the group that it belongs.