Annotation of Inchoative and Predicate in Arabic Nominal Sentence

Abstract

Linguistic annotation provides additional information associated with a particular purpose in a document or another piece of information. It is widely used in various fields, ranging from computing and bioinformatics to psychology, law, and linguistics. This study aimed to develop a linguistic annotator for nominal Arabic sentences. The annotator detects both the Inchoative (I) and Predicate (P) phrases within nominal sentences in Arabic text. This is based on a shallow parsing method for chunking sentence constituents. The motivation behind this study is to produce a tool that enables further analysis, such as rhetorical parsing. This annotator can help improve the accuracy of linguistic parsers and enhance natural language understanding. The experiments were conducted on a standard dataset supported by a competitive case study. These results are promising and encouraging.