Abstract
We present a large-scale 26,000-lemma leveled readability lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic. The lexicon was manually annotated in triplicate by language professionals from three regions in the Arab world. The annotations show a high degree of agreement; and major differences were limited to regional variations. Comparing lemma readability levels with their frequencies provided good insights in the benefits and pitfalls of frequency-based readability approaches. The lexicon will be publicly available.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.373
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3053–3062
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.373
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Muhamed Al Khalil, Nizar Habash, and Zhengyang Jiang. 2020. A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3053–3062, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic (Al Khalil et al., LREC 2020)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/emnlp-22-attachments/2020.lrec-1.373.pdf