Authors:
Samia Ben Ismail
1
;
Sirine Boukédi
2
and
Kais Haddar
3
Affiliations:
1
ISITCom Hammam Sousse, Sousse University, Miracl laboratory and Tunisia
;
2
National Engineering School, Gabes University, Miracl laboratory and Tunisia
;
3
Faculty of Science of Sfax, Sfax University, Miracl laboratory and Tunisia
Keyword(s):
Arabic Gerund Forms, Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), Linguistic Knowledge Building (LKB) System, Type Description Language (TDL).
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Applications
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Knowledge Engineering and Ontology Development
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Natural Language Processing
;
Pattern Recognition
;
Symbolic Systems
Abstract:
The treatment of morphological phenomena is important in Natural Language Processing (NLP), especially using a unification grammar. In Arabic grammar, the gerund is considered one of the most delicate morphological structures since it changes the grammatical category. Thus, we present in this paper, a Head-driven Phrase Structure Grammar (HPSG), treating Arabic gerund forms. The elaborated grammar is specified with Type Description Language (TDL) and validated on Linguistic Knowledge Building (LKB) system. The obtained results were encouraging, which proves the effectiveness of our system.