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title = "A Pilot {A}rabic {P}ropbank",
author = "Palmer, Martha and
Babko-Malaya, Olga and
Bies, Ann and
Diab, Mona and
Maamouri, Mohamed and
Mansouri, Aous and
Zaghouani, Wajdi",
editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and
Choukri, Khalid and
Maegaard, Bente and
Mariani, Joseph and
Odijk, Jan and
Piperidis, Stelios and
Tapias, Daniel",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation ({LREC}'08)",
month = may,
year = "2008",
address = "Marrakech, Morocco",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
url = "http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/880_paper.pdf",
abstract = "In this paper, we present the details of creating a pilot Arabic proposition bank (Propbank). Propbanks exist for both English and Chinese. However the morphological and syntactic expression of linguistic phenomena in Arabic yields a very different type of process in creating an Arabic propbank. Hence, we highlight those characteristics of Arabic that make creating a propbank for the language a different challenge compared to the creation of an English Propbank.We believe that many of the lessons learned in dealing with Arabic could generalise to other languages that exhibit equally rich morphology and relatively free word order.",
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%0 Conference Proceedings
%T A Pilot Arabic Propbank
%A Palmer, Martha
%A Babko-Malaya, Olga
%A Bies, Ann
%A Diab, Mona
%A Maamouri, Mohamed
%A Mansouri, Aous
%A Zaghouani, Wajdi
%Y Calzolari, Nicoletta
%Y Choukri, Khalid
%Y Maegaard, Bente
%Y Mariani, Joseph
%Y Odijk, Jan
%Y Piperidis, Stelios
%Y Tapias, Daniel
%S Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC’08)
%D 2008
%8 May
%I European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
%C Marrakech, Morocco
%F palmer-etal-2008-pilot
%X In this paper, we present the details of creating a pilot Arabic proposition bank (Propbank). Propbanks exist for both English and Chinese. However the morphological and syntactic expression of linguistic phenomena in Arabic yields a very different type of process in creating an Arabic propbank. Hence, we highlight those characteristics of Arabic that make creating a propbank for the language a different challenge compared to the creation of an English Propbank.We believe that many of the lessons learned in dealing with Arabic could generalise to other languages that exhibit equally rich morphology and relatively free word order.
%U http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/880_paper.pdf
Markdown (Informal)
[A Pilot Arabic Propbank](http://www.lrec-conf.org/proceedings/lrec2008/pdf/880_paper.pdf) (Palmer et al., LREC 2008)
ACL
- Martha Palmer, Olga Babko-Malaya, Ann Bies, Mona Diab, Mohamed Maamouri, Aous Mansouri, and Wajdi Zaghouani. 2008. A Pilot Arabic Propbank. In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'08), Marrakech, Morocco. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).