Paper Info
Title
Fine-Grain Morphological Analyzer and Part-of-Speech Tagger for Arabic Text
Abstract
Morphological analyzers and part-of-speech taggers are key technologies for most text analysis applications. Our aim is to develop a part-of-speech tagger for annotating a wide range of Arabic text formats, domains and genres including both vowelized and non-vowelized text. Enriching the text with linguistic analysis will maximize the potential for corpus re-use in a wide range of applications. We foresee the advantage of enriching the text with part-of-speech tags of very fine-grained grammatical distinctions, which reflect expert interest in syntax and morphology, but not specific needs of end-users, because end-user applications are not known in advance. In this paper we review existing Arabic Part-of-Speech Taggers and tag-sets, and illustrate four different Arabic PoS tag-sets for a sample of Arabic text from the Quran. We describe the detailed fine-grained morphological feature tag set of Arabic, and the fine-grained Arabic morphological analyzer algorithm. We faced practical challenges in applying the morphological analyzer to the 100-million-word Web Arabic Corpus: we had to port the software to the National Grid Service, adapt the analyser to cope with spelling variations and errors, and utilise a Broad-Coverage Lexical Resource combining 23 traditional Arabic lexicons. Finally we outline the construction of a Gold Standard for comparative evaluation.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2010
LREC 2010 - SEVENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
text analysis,gold standard,part of speech
Field
DocType
Citations 
Arabic,Computer science,Speech recognition,Part of speech,Software,Artificial intelligence,Spelling,Natural language processing,Syntax,Spectrum analyzer,Linguistic analysis
Conference
9
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.86
12
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Majdi Sawalha1384.25
Eric Atwell23712.35