Introduction
Arabic Treebank: Part 2 (ATB2) v 3.1 , Linguistic Data Consortium (LDC) catalog
number LDC2011T09 and isbn 1-58563-590-1, was developed at LDC. It consists
of 501 newswire stories from Ummah Press with part-of-speech (POS), morphology,
gloss and syntactic treebank annotation in accordance with the Penn
Arabic Treebank (PATB) Guidelines developed in 2008 and 2009. This release
represents a significant revision of LDCs previous ATB2 publication: Arabic
Treebank: Part 2 v 2.0 LDC2004T02.
The ongoing PATB project supports research in Arabic-language natural language
processing and human language technology development. The methodology and work
leading to the release of this publication are described in detail in the documentation
accompanying this corpus and in two research papers: Enhancing
the Arabic Treebank: A Collaborative Effort toward New Annotation Guidelines
and Consistent
and Flexible Integration of Morphological Annotation in the Arabic Treebank.
Data
ATB2 v 3.1 contains a total of 144,199 source tokens before clitics are split,
and 169,319 tree tokens after clitics are separated for the treebank annotation.
Source texts were selected from Ummah Press news archives covering the period from July 2001 through September 2002.
Sponsorship
This work was supported in part by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, GALE Program Grant No. HR0011-06-1-0003. The content of this publication does not necessarily reflect the position or the policy of the Government, and no official endorsement should be inferred.
Samples
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