Paper Info
Title
Construction and Annotation of the Jordan Comprehensive Contemporary Arabic Corpus (JCCA)
Abstract
To compile a modern dictionary that catalogues the words in currency, and to study linguistic patterns in the contemporary language, it is necessary to have a corpus of authentic texts that reflect current usage of the language. Although there are numerous Arabic corpora, none claims to be representative of the language in terms of the combination of geographical region, genre, subject matter, mode, and medium. This paper describes a 100-million-word corpus that takes the British National Corpus (BNC) as a model. The aim of the corpus is to be balanced, annotated, comprehensive, and representative of contemporary Arabic as written and spoken in Arab countries today. It will be different from most others in not being heavily-dominated by the news or in mixing the classical with the modern. In this paper is an outline of the methodology adopted for the design, construction, and annotation of this corpus. DIWAN (Al-Shargi and Rambow, 2015) was used to annotate a one-million-word snapshot of the corpus. DIWAN is a dialectal word annotation tool, but we upgraded it by adding a new tag-set that is based on traditional Arabic grammar and by adding the roots and morphological patterns of nouns and verbs. Moreover, the corpus we constructed covers the major spoken varieties of Arabic.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.18653/v1/w19-4616
FOURTH ARABIC NATURAL LANGUAGE PROCESSING WORKSHOP (WANLP 2019)
Field
DocType
Citations 
Annotation,Arabic,Computer science,Natural language processing,Artificial intelligence
Conference
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Majdi Sawalha100.68
Faisal Alshargi200.68
Abdallah AlShdaifat300.34
Sane Yagi400.68
Mohammad A. Qudah500.34