To address this inconsistency in the correspondence between inflectional features and morphemes , and inspired by SmrÅ¾ ( 2007 ) , we distinguish between two types of inflectional features : formbased ( a.k.a. surface , or illusory ) features and functional features .6 Most available Arabic NLP tools and resources model morphology using formbased ( `` surface '' ) inflectional features , and do not mark rationality ; this includes the Penn Arabic Treebank ( PATB ) ( Maamouri et al. 2004 ) , the Buckwalter morphological analyzer ( Buckwalter 2004 ) , and tools using them such as the Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Arabic ( MADA ) toolkit ( Habash and Rambow 2005 ; Habash , Rambow , and Roth 2012 ) .
the penn arabic treebank building a largescale annotated arabic corpus
Mohamed Maamouri Ann Bies Timothy A Buckwalter Wigdan Mekki
A similar inconsistency appears in feminine nominals that are not inflected using sound gender suffixes , for example , the feminine form of the masculine singular adjective S , l Ãzraq + Ï ( ` blue ' ) is Abj zarqA ' + Ï not U , j l * * Ãzraq + ah . To address this inconsistency in the correspondence between inflectional features and morphemes , and inspired by SmrÅ¾ ( 2007 ) , we distinguish between two types of inflectional features : formbased ( a.k.a. surface , or illusory ) features and functional features .6 Most available Arabic NLP tools and resources model morphology using formbased ( `` surface '' ) inflectional features , and do not mark rationality ; this includes the Penn Arabic Treebank ( PATB ) ( Maamouri et al. 2004 ) , the Buckwalter morphological analyzer ( Buckwalter 2004 ) , and tools using them such as the Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Arabic ( MADA ) toolkit ( Habash and Rambow 2005 ; Habash , Rambow , and Roth 2012 ) . The Elixir-FM analyzer ( SmrÅ¾ 2007 ) readily provides the
To address this inconsistency in the correspondence between inflectional features and morphemes , and inspired by SmrÅ¾ ( 2007 ) , we distinguish between two types of inflectional features : formbased ( a.k.a. surface , or illusory ) features and functional features .6 Most available Arabic NLP tools and resources model morphology using formbased ( `` surface '' ) inflectional features , and do not mark rationality ; this includes the Penn Arabic Treebank ( PATB ) ( @@CITATION ) , the Buckwalter morphological analyzer ( Buckwalter 2004 ) , and tools using them such as the Morphological Analysis and Disambiguation for Arabic ( MADA ) toolkit ( Habash and Rambow 2005 ; Habash , Rambow , and Roth 2012 ) .