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A Large Coverage Verb Taxonomy for Arabic
Proceedings of the Seventh International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2010)
Abstract
In this article I present a lexicon for Arabic verbs which exploits Levins verb-classes (Levin, 1993) and the basic development procedure used by (Schuler, 2005). The verb lexicon in its current state has 173 classes which contain 4392 verbs and 498 frames providing information about verb root, the deverbal form of the verb, the participle, thematic roles, subcategorisation frames and syntactic and semantic descriptions of each verb. The taxonomy is available in XML format. It can be ported to MYSQL, YAML or JSON and accessed either in Arabic characters or in the Buckwalter transliteration.