Sadek, J and Meziane, F 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9811-6914
2018,
Building a causation annotated corpus : the Salford Arabic Causal Bank-proclitics
, in: The 3rd Workshop on Open-Source Arabic Corpora and Processing Tools, 8 May 2018, Miyazaki, Japan.
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Abstract
We introduce the Salford Arabic Causal Bank (SACB) corpus, a new corpus dedicated to Arabic Causal relations. Causality as a linguistic phenomenon can be expressed using different elements and grammatical expressions. In Arabic language, causal particles – Purpose Lām, Causation Fa’a, Causation Ba’a- are frequently prefixed to words; they play a key role in indicating causality. However, these particles give different meanings according to their position in the text. In fact, these meanings can be interpreted according to the context in which they occur. This ambiguity emphasizes the high demand for a large-scale corpus in which instances of these particles are annotated. In this paper, we present the first stage of building the SACB, which includes a collection of annotated sentences each of which contains an instance of a causal particle. The sentences were carefully examined by two specialist annotators to give an accurate account for each annotated instance. Arabic is a less–resourced language and we hope this corpus would help in building better Information Extraction systems.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Schools: | Schools > School of Computing, Science and Engineering > Salford Innovation Research Centre |
| Journal or Publication Title: | 11th Edition of the Language Resources and Evaluation Conference |
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| Depositing User: | Prof Farid Meziane |
| Date Deposited: | 03 May 2018 08:45 |
| Last Modified: | 09 May 2018 18:27 |
| URI: | http://usir.salford.ac.uk/id/eprint/46923 |
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