Abstract
A boundary-annotated and part-of-speech tagged corpus is a prerequisite for developing phrase break classifiers. Boundary annotations in English speech corpora are descriptive, delimiting intonation units perceived by the listener. We take a novel approach to phrase break prediction for Arabic, deriving our prosodic annotation scheme from Tajwīd (recitation) mark-up in the Qur'an which we then interpret as additional text-based data for computational analysis. This mark-up is prescriptive, and signifies a widely-used recitation style, and one of seven original styles of transmission. Here we report on version 1.0 of our Boundary-Annotated Qur'an dataset of 77430 words and 8230 sentences, where each word is tagged with prosodic and syntactic information at two coarse-grained levels. In (Sawalha et al., 2012), we use the dataset in phrase break prediction experiments. This research is part of a larger-scale project to produce annotation schemes, language resources, algorithms, and applications for Classical and Modern Standard Arabic.- Anthology ID:
- L12-1092
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2012
- Address:
- Istanbul, Turkey
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1011–1016
- Language:
- URL:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/240_Paper.pdf
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Claire Brierley, Majdi Sawalha, and Eric Atwell. 2012. Open-Source Boundary-Annotated Corpus for Arabic Speech and Language Processing. In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'12), pages 1011–1016, Istanbul, Turkey. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- Open-Source Boundary-Annotated Corpus for Arabic Speech and Language Processing (Brierley et al., LREC 2012)
- PDF:
- http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2012/pdf/240_Paper.pdf