Title
Diacritic Annotation in the Arabic Treebank and its Impact on Parser Evaluation
Abstract
The Arabic Treebank (ATB), released by the Linguistic Data Consortium, contains multiple annotation files for each source file, due in part to the role of diacritic inclusion in the annotation process. The data is made available in both "vocalized" and "unvocalized" forms, with and without the diacritic marks, respectively. Much parsing work with the ATB has used the unvocalized form, on the basis that it more closely represents the "real-world" situation. We point out some problems with this usage of the unvocalized data and explain why the unvocalized form does not in fact represent "real-world" data. This is due to some aspects of the treebank annotation that to our knowledge have never before been published.
Year
Venue
Field
2008
SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION, LREC 2008
Linguistic Data Consortium,Annotation,Arabic,Computer science,Source code,Speech recognition,Diacritic,Artificial intelligence,Treebank,Natural language processing,Parsing
DocType
Citations 
PageRank 
Conference
3
0.49
References 
Authors
1
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Maamouri111213.34
Seth Kulick222129.66
Ann Bies313620.02