Derivational Relations in Arabic WordNet
Mohamed Ali Batita, Mounir Zrigui · 2018
When derivational relations deficiency exists in a wordnet, such as the Arabic Word-Net, it makes it very difficult to exploit in the natural language processing community.Such deficiency is raised when many wordnets follow the same development path of Princeton WordNet.A rulebased approach for Arabic derivational relations is proposed in this paper to deal with this deficiency.The proposed approach is explained step by step.It involves the gathering of lexical entries that share the same root, into a bag of words.Rules are then used to affect the appropriate derivational relations, i.e. to relate existing words in the AWN, involving partof-speech switch.The method is implemented using Java.Manual verification by a lexicographer takes place to ensure good results.The described approach gave good results.It could be useful for other morphologically complex languages as well.