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Pos, Morphology and Dependencies Annotation Guidelines for Arabic PoS, Morphology and Dependencies Annotation Guidelines for Arabic Mohammed Attia, Tolga Kayadelen, Ryan Mcdonald, Slav Petrov Google Inc. May, 2017 Table of Contents 1. Introduction............................................................................................................................................2 2. Tokenization...........................................................................................................................................3 Arabic Clitic Table................................................................................................................................4 Special Cases.........................................................................................................................................4 3. POS Tagging..........................................................................................................................................8 POS Quick Table...................................................................................................................................8 POS Tags.............................................................................................................................................13 JJ: Adjective....................................................................................................................................13 JJR: Elative Adjective.....................................................................................................................14 DT: The Arabic Determiner System...............................................................................................14 PDT: Predeterminers.......................................................................................................................15 RB: Adverbs...................................................................................................................................15 ADP/IN: Adpositions......................................................................................................................16 PRP: Personal Pronouns.................................................................................................................17 WP: interrogative/adjectival pronouns...........................................................................................19 VBN: active and passive participles...............................................................................................19 VBG: masdar..................................................................................................................................20 RP: Particle.....................................................................................................................................20 UH: Interjection or hesitation.........................................................................................................21 SYM: Symbol.................................................................................................................................21 Specific Cases for POS........................................................................................................................22 4. Morphological feature tagging.............................................................................................................34 Guiding Principle................................................................................................................................35 Intent vs Production.............................................................................................................................35 Proper..................................................................................................................................................36 Specific Cases For Morphology..........................................................................................................41 Plurality and Numerals...................................................................................................................41 Pluralia Tantum...............................................................................................................................41 Ambiguity.......................................................................................................................................42 Gender Representation....................................................................................................................42 Definiteness....................................................................................................................................44 Personal Names..............................................................................................................................45 Idafa vs Apposition.........................................................................................................................45 Tagging Foreign Words...................................................................................................................46 Tagging Dialectical Words..............................................................................................................46 The Unspecified Tag.......................................................................................................................48 1 5. Dependencies.......................................................................................................................................49 5.1 Dependency Quick Table..............................................................................................................49 5.2 Dependency Labels.......................................................................................................................62 5.2.1 Root.......................................................................................................................................62 5.2.2 Auxiliary................................................................................................................................63 5.2.3 Arguments..............................................................................................................................63 5.3 Specific Issues with Dependency..................................................................................................87 MWE List.......................................................................................................................................87 xcomp.............................................................................................................................................89 Prep / Mark.....................................................................................................................................90 Dates and Time...............................................................................................................................90 Light verb constructions.................................................................................................................92 Quantifiers: predet vs. head............................................................................................................92 Interrogative pronouns....................................................................................................................92 Multi-token subordinating conjunctions.........................................................................................94 Range expressions..........................................................................................................................94 Locutions: mwe..............................................................................................................................94 Relative pronouns...........................................................................................................................95 Nouns with omitted relative pronouns............................................................................................96 Headless relative clauses................................................................................................................96 Parataxis vs. appos..........................................................................................................................97 Adjuncts: choice of the head...........................................................................................................97 97...............................................................................................................................لن ولكي Phrases Symbols in Dependency.................................................................................................................97 98................................................................................................يمكن، يعجب، يكفي :Verbs with csubj 98.................................................................................المر الذي Subordinate sentences starting with Definition of prepositional argument (CLR)..................................................................................99 Irregular Adjective Sequence........................................................................................................100 100.................................................................................................................ليس Other functions of Case for Nouns Modified by Numbers.........................................................................................100 Case for Words of non-Arabic Origin...........................................................................................100
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