Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory

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Main Author: Hammo Bassam
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Published: Instituto Politécnico Nacional 2014
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contents Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory Hammo Bassam Moubaiddin Asma Obeid Nadim Tuffaha Abeer Computación Arabic syntax Arabic parser Government and Binding theory Arabic natural language processing The research focus in our paper is twofold: (a) to examine the extent to which simple Arabic sentence structures comply with the Government and Binding Theory (GB), and (b) to implement a simple Arabic Context Free Grammar (CFG) parser to analyze input sentence structures to improve some Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Applications. Here we present a parser that employs Chomsky’s Government and Binding (GB) theory to better understand the syntactic structure of Arabic sentences. We consider different simple word orders in Arabic and show how they are derived. We analyze different sentence orders including Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), Verb-Object-Subject (VOS), Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), nominal sentences, nominal sentences beginning with inna (and sisters) and question sentences. We tackle the analysis of the structures to develop syntactic rules for a fragment of Arabic grammar. We include two sets of rules: (1) rules on sentence structures that do not account for case and (2) rules on sentence structures that account for case of Noun Phrases (NPs). We present an implementation of the grammar rules in Prolog. The experiments revealed high accuracy in case assignment in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in the light of GB theory especially when the input sentences are tagged with identification of end cases. 2014 artículo científico 1405-5546 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61532067015 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=615 Computación y Sistemas application/pdf Instituto Politécnico Nacional Computación y Sistemas (México) Num.3 Vol.18
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spellingShingle Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory
Hammo Bassam
Computación
Arabic syntax
Arabic parser
Government and Binding theory
Arabic natural language processing
Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory Hammo Bassam Moubaiddin Asma Obeid Nadim Tuffaha Abeer Computación Arabic syntax Arabic parser Government and Binding theory Arabic natural language processing The research focus in our paper is twofold: (a) to examine the extent to which simple Arabic sentence structures comply with the Government and Binding Theory (GB), and (b) to implement a simple Arabic Context Free Grammar (CFG) parser to analyze input sentence structures to improve some Arabic Natural Language Processing (ANLP) Applications. Here we present a parser that employs Chomsky’s Government and Binding (GB) theory to better understand the syntactic structure of Arabic sentences. We consider different simple word orders in Arabic and show how they are derived. We analyze different sentence orders including Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), Verb-Object-Subject (VOS), Verb-Subject-Object (VSO), nominal sentences, nominal sentences beginning with inna (and sisters) and question sentences. We tackle the analysis of the structures to develop syntactic rules for a fragment of Arabic grammar. We include two sets of rules: (1) rules on sentence structures that do not account for case and (2) rules on sentence structures that account for case of Noun Phrases (NPs). We present an implementation of the grammar rules in Prolog. The experiments revealed high accuracy in case assignment in Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) in the light of GB theory especially when the input sentences are tagged with identification of end cases. 2014 artículo científico 1405-5546 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61532067015 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=615 Computación y Sistemas application/pdf Instituto Politécnico Nacional Computación y Sistemas (México) Num.3 Vol.18
title Formal Description of Arabic Syntactic Structure in the Framework of the Government and Binding Theory
topic Computación
Arabic syntax
Arabic parser
Government and Binding theory
Arabic natural language processing
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=61532067015