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An Arabic-Multilingual Database with a Lexicographic Search Engine

  • Birzeit University

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Abstract

We present a lexicographic search engine built on top of the largest Arabic multilingual database, allowing people to search and retrieve translations, synonyms, definitions, and more. The database currently contains about 150 Arabic multilingual lexicons that we have been digitizing, restructuring, and normalizing over 9 years. It comprises most types of lexical resources, such as modern and classical lexicons, thesauri, glossaries, lexicographic datasets, and (bi/)tri-lingual dictionaries. This is in addition to the Arabic Ontology – an Arabic WordNet with ontologically cleaned content, which is being used to reference and interlink lexical concepts. The search engine was developed with the state-of-the-art design features and according to the W3C’s recommendation and best practices for publishing data on the web, as well as the W3C’s Lemon RDF model. The search engine is publicly available at (https://ontology.birzeit.edu).

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationNatural Language Processing and Information Systems - 24th International Conference on Applications of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2019, Proceedings
EditorsElisabeth Métais, Farid Meziane, Sunil Vadera, Vijayan Sugumaran, Mohamad Saraee
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages234-246
Number of pages13
ISBN (Print)9783030232801
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 21 Jun 2019
Externally publishedYes
Event24th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2019 - Salford, United Kingdom
Duration: 26 Jun 201928 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11608 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference24th International Conference on Application of Natural Language to Information Systems, NLDB 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySalford
Period26/06/1928/06/19

Keywords

  • Arabic
  • Language resources
  • Lexical semantics
  • Lexicographic search
  • Multilingual lexicons
  • NLP
  • Online dictionary
  • RDF
  • W3C lemon

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