Syntactic Annotation Guidelines for the Quranic Arabic Dependency Treebank

The Quranic Arabic Dependency Treebank (QADT) is part of the Quranic Arabic Corpus (http://corpus.quran.com), an online linguistic resource organized by the University of Leeds, and developed through online collaborative annotation. The website has become a popular study resource for Arabic and the Quran, and is now used by over 1,500 researchers and students daily. This paper presents the treebank, explains the choice of syntactic representation ( ), and highlights key parts of the annotation guidelines. The text being analyzed is the Quran, the central religious book of Islam, written in classical Quranic Arabic (c. 600 CE). To date, all 77,430 words of the Quran have a manually verified morphological analysis, and syntactic analysis is in progress. 11,000 words of Quranic Arabic have been syntactically annotated as part of a gold standard treebank ( ). Annotation guidelines are especially important to promote consistency for a corpus which is being developed through online collabor...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2010
• Where: LREC
• Authors: Kais Dukes, Eric Atwell, Abdul-Baquee M. Sharaf
• Keywords: Education, LREC 2010, Quranic Arabic, Quranic Arabic Corpus, Quranic Arabic Dependency