Towards the construction of a comprehensive Arabic WordNet

Hamza Zidoum*

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Abstract

Arabic is a Semitic language spoken by millions of people in more than 20 different countries. However, not much work has been done in the field of online dictionaries or lexical resources. WordNet is an example of a lexical resource that has not been yet developed for Arabic. WordNet, a lexical database developed at Princeton University, has seen life 15 years ago. Ever since then, it has proved to be widely successful and extremely necessary for today's demands for processing natural languages. Accordingly, the motivation of developing an Arabic WordNet became strong. In this paper we tackle some of the challenges inherent to constructing an Arabic lexical reference system. The paper goes through some solutions adopted in existing WordNets and presents justifications for adopting the Arabic WordNet's (AWN) philosophy. We address the nominal part of Arabic WordNet as the first step towards the construction of a comprehensive Arabic WordNet. The nominal part means nouns as a part of speech.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGWC 2008
Subtitle of host publication4th Global WordNet Conference, Proceedings
PublisherUniversity of Szeged
Pages531-543
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9789634828549
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Event4th Global WordNet Conference, GWC 2008 - Szeged, Hungary
Duration: Jan 22 2008Jan 25 2008

Publication series

NameGWC 2008: 4th Global WordNet Conference, Proceedings

Other

Other4th Global WordNet Conference, GWC 2008
Country/TerritoryHungary
CitySzeged
Period1/22/081/25/08

Keywords

  • Arabic processing
  • Lexicon
  • Synsets
  • Wordnet

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Literature and Literary Theory

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