Arabic presents a particularly rich environment for part-of-speech tagging (POS tagging). Its morphological structure, productive use of prefixes and suffixes, grammatical gender, number, definiteness, case and verbal inflection mean that identifying a word simply as a noun, verb or particle is often only the beginning of linguistic analysis. At the broadest grammatical level, Arabic words … Continue reading “Arabic POS Tagset: Morphology and MSA Annotation”

