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An Arabic Dependency Treebank in the Travel Domain

What it is about

The authors build a small dependency treebank of Modern Standard Arabic from the travel-phrase corpus BTEC, in the Columbia Arabic Treebank (CATiB) style, so that it can be compared with the news-based Penn Arabic Treebank. The corpus is 2,000 sentences, mostly short conversational lines; the annotation is a parser's output corrected by one annotator, and a second annotator checked 100 sentences. Inter-annotator agreement is 98.7% on POS, 96.1% on labels and 89.7% on labelled attachment. The sentences differ from the news genre: over 40% are questions, against at most 2.6% in the news part, and the most frequent words are question words and first- and second-person forms. The CamelParser, trained on news, drops from 83.8% to 73.5% LAS when run on this treebank, which the authors read as a genre effect.

Ideas

For Mova

I1 is a test for treebanks/he/ and gparse, recorded in 7. Syntax. I2 applies to question handling in prag, with the Hebrew question forms in 7. Syntax. I3 goes into 8. Lexicon and register. The agreement figures are a model for the inter-annotator check in treebanks/he/.

Topics: Treebanks

Cite

The paper itself, not this card. BibTeX from the library's record of the work. arXiv 1901.10188

@misc{taji2019arabic,
  title = {{An Arabic Dependency Treebank in the Travel Domain}},
  author = {Taji, Dima and Gizuli, Jamila El and Habash, Nizar},
  year = {2019},
  eprint = {1901.10188},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1901.10188}
}

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