A compact Arabic lexical semantics language resource based on the theory of semantic fields

Rashwan, Mohssin and Attia, Mohammed and Ahmed Mahmoud, Ahmed Ragheb (2008) A compact Arabic lexical semantics language resource based on the theory of semantic fields. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS), 5221. pp. 65-76. ISSN 1611-3349 (O), 0302-9743 (P)

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Abstract

Applications of statistical Arabic NLP in general, and text mining in specific, along with the tools underneath perform much better as the statistical processing operates on deeper language factorization(s) than on raw text. Lexical semantic factorization is very important in that aspect due to its feasibility, high level of abstraction, and the language independence of its output. In the core of such a factorization lies an Arabic lexical semantic DB. While building this LR, we had to go beyond the conventional exclusive collection of words from dictionaries and thesauri that cannot alone produce a satisfactory coverage of this highly inflective and derivative language. This paper is hence devoted to the design and implementation of an Arabic lexical semantics LR that enables the retrieval of the possible senses of any given Arabic word at a high coverage. Instead of tying full Arabic words to their possible senses, our LR flexibly relates morphologically and PoS-tags constrained Arabic lexical compounds to a predefined limited set of semantic fields across which the standard semantic relations are defined. With the aid of the same large-scale Arabic morphological analyzer and PoS tagger in the runtime, the possible senses of virtually any given Arabic word are retrievable.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	6730/23488
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Islamic Revealed Knowledge and Human Sciences
Depositing User:	Ahmed Ragheb Ahmed
Date Deposited:	01 Feb 2013 14:29
Last Modified:	17 Sep 2015 10:31
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/23488

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