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| Title | Linguistic Constraints as a Sub-component of a Framework that has Multilinguistic Applications |
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| Authors | Salwa Hamada and Adil Al Kufaishi |
| Abstract | The paper is an attempt to promote Arabic language technologies and resources. It proposes a framework of linguistic constraints LCs that could be utilized to account for Arabic textual ambiguity and to hinder the generation of Arabic ungrammatical structures. The proposed constraints operate at all linguistic levels: lexical, morphological, sentential and supra-sentential. The paper contributes to solving a number of textual analysis problems which both translators and text analysts encounter in their deconstruction process. It has made an extensive use of the linguistic componential analysis theory, the distinctive feature matrices and the conceptual frames. The framework has a built-in statistical sub-component which, in essence, determines the frequency of each linguistic unit LU and ranks its order in terms of its frequency. The lexical items are arranged in the order of their frequency of occurrence; this is referred to as the Frequency Rate (FR). The framework is applied for disambiguating various types of texts: narrative, descriptive, expository conversation or argumentative at different linguistic levels and has proved to be capable of resolving different types of textual ambiguities. |
| Topics | Exploitation of LRs in different types of applications (information extraction, information retrieval, speech dictation, translation, summarisation, web services, semantic web, etc.), Roadmapping for Arabic language technology, Definition and requirements for a Basic LAnguage Resource Kit (BLARK) for Arabic |
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Linguistic Constraints as a Sub-component of a Framework that has Multilinguistic Applications |
| Bibtex | @InProceedings{HAMADA09.2, author = {Salwa Hamada and Adil Al Kufaishi}, title = {Linguistic Constraints as a Sub-component of a Framework that has Multilinguistic Applications}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Arabic Language Resources and Tools}, year = {2009}, month = {April}, date = {22-23}, address = {Cairo, Egypt}, editor = {Khalid Choukri and Bente Maegaard}, publisher = {The MEDAR Consortium}, isbn = {2-9517408-5-9}, language = {english} } |