Towards Structuring an Arabic-English Machine-Readable Dictionary Using Parsing Expression Grammars
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Title:Towards Structuring an Arabic-English Machine-Readable Dictionary Using Parsing Expression Grammars
Abstract:Dictionaries are rich sources of lexical information about words that is required for many applications of natural language processing and human language technology. However, publishers prepare printed dictionaries for human usage not for machine processing. This paper presented a method to structure partly a machine-readable version of the Arabic-English Al-Mawrid dictionary. The method converted the entries of Al-Mawrid from a stream of words and punctuation marks into hierarchical structures. The hierarchical structure expresses the components of each dictionary entry in explicit format. A dictionary entry is composed of subentries and each subentry consists of defining phrases, domain labels, cross-references, and translation equivalences. We designed the proposed method as cascaded steps where parsing is the main step. We implemented the parser using the parsing expression grammars formalism. In conclusion, although Arabic dictionaries do not have microstructure standardization, this study demonstrated that it is possible to structure them automatically or semi-automatically with plausible accuracy after inducing their microstructure.
| Comments: | 14 pages, 6 figures, 7 tables. The final publication is available at this https URL. Published in International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research (IJCLR), DLINE, March 2014, Vol 5, Issue 1, pp 1-13 |
| Subjects: | Computation and Language (cs.CL) |
| Cite as: | arXiv:2606.25231 [cs.CL] |
| (or arXiv:2606.25231v1 [cs.CL] for this version) | |
| https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2606.25231
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| Journal reference: | International Journal of Computational Linguistics Research (IJCLR), 5(1), pp 1-13, March 2014, DLINE Publisher |
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