Half-of-speech Tagset for Arabic – lexsense

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Trendy Normal Arabic grammar defines an in depth part-of-speech hierarchy which is utilized to phrases and morphological segments each. Essentially, a phrase could also be categorized as a nominal ism (اسم), verb fiʿil (فعل) or a particle ḥarf (حرف). The set of nominals embrace nouns, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs. The particles embrace prepositions, conjunctions and interrogatives, in addition to many others. Morphological annotation within the Arabic corpus divides phrases into a number of segments. Every section is assigned a part-of-speech tag. These tags are detailed within the following sections. Along with part-of-speech tags, every section is annotated utilizing a set of a number of morphological options.

  Tag Arabic Title Description
Nouns N اسم Noun
PN اسم علم Correct noun
Derived nominals ADJ صفة Adjective
IMPN اسم فعل أمر Crucial verbal noun
Pronouns PRON ضمير Private pronoun
DEM اسم اشارة Demonstrative pronoun
REL اسم موصول Relative pronoun
Adverbs T ظرف زمان Time adverb
LOC ظرف مكان Location adverb

Fig 1. Half-of-speech tagset for nominals