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NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows formalizing complex linguistic phenomena such as compound words generation, processing as well as analysis. We will take advantage of NooJ’s linguistic engine strength in order to create a new large coverage terminological compound word’s dictionary for Modern Standard Arabic language. Classifying and annotating Arabic compound words would have a major impact on the disambiguation of applications working with Arabic texts. The diverse analyzers, based on morphological aspect, are not able to recognize multiword expressions. Morphological analyzers usually separate compound expressions into single terms. Therefore recognizing the entire compound words is essential to preserve the semantic of texts and to provide a crucial resource for a better analysis and understanding of Arabic language.
Our work is composed of three sections. First, we will deal with a literature review on Arabic compound expression’s categories which aims to dress a detailed topology. The structural variability of multiword expressions in Arabic language will be studied in order to measure the degree of morphological, lexical and grammatical flexibility of multiword expressions. Then, we will discuss the electronic thematic dictionary of compound Arabic expressions and give detailed description of our methodology and guidelines.
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NooJ’s syntactic categories:
Syntactic codes | |
|---|---|
<ADJ> | Adjective |
<V> | Verb |
<N> | Noun |
<ADV> | Adverb |
<CONJ> | Conjunction |
<PREP> | Preposition |
<PREF> | Prefix |
<PRON> | Pronoun |
<REL> | Relative pronoun |
<PART> | Particle |
<E> | Empty caracter |
<P> | Ponctuation |
Inflectional codes | |
<s> | Singular |
<p> | Plurial |
<m> | Male |
<f> | Female |
Semantic codes | |
<CmpdElem> | Component of a MWE |
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Najar, D., Mesfar, S., Ghezela, H.B. (2016). A Large Terminological Dictionary of Arabic Compound Words. In: Okrut, T., Hetsevich, Y., Silberztein, M., Stanislavenka, H. (eds) Automatic Processing of Natural-Language Electronic Texts with NooJ. NooJ 2015. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 607. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42471-2_2
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