Annotating Verbal Multiword Expressions in Arabic: Assessing the Validity of a Multilingual Annotation Procedure

Najet Hadj Mohamed, Cherifa Ben Khelil, Agata Savary, Iskandar Keskes, Jean-Yves Antoine, Lamia Hadrich-Belguith

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This paper describes our efforts to extend the PARSEME framework to Modern Standard Arabic. Theapplicability of the PARSEME guidelines was tested by measuring the inter-annotator agreement in theearly annotation stage. A subset of 1,062 sentences from the Prague Arabic Dependency Treebank PADTwas selected and annotated by two Arabic native speakers independently. Following their annotations, anew Arabic corpus with over 1,250 annotated VMWEs has been built. This corpus already exceeds thesmallest corpora of the PARSEME suite, and enables first observations. We discuss our annotation guide-line schema that shows full MWE annotation is realizable in Arabic where we get good inter-annotator agreement.
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2022.lrec-1.196
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Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
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2022
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Marseille, France
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Najet Hadj Mohamed, Cherifa Ben Khelil, Agata Savary, Iskandar Keskes, Jean-Yves Antoine, and Lamia Hadrich-Belguith. 2022. Annotating Verbal Multiword Expressions in Arabic: Assessing the Validity of a Multilingual Annotation Procedure. In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 1839–1848, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
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