CATiB

Published 1 January 2009Open access

Nizar Habash, Ryan M. Roth

Citations127

TL;DR

The Columbia Arabic Treebank (CATiB) is a database of syntactic analyses of Arabic sentences using representations and terminology inspired by traditional Arabic syntax.

Abstract

The Columbia Arabic Treebank (CATiB) is a database of syntactic analyses of Arabic sentences. CATiB contrasts with previous approaches to Arabic treebanking in its emphasis on speed with some constraints on linguistic richness. Two basic ideas inspire the CATiB approach: no annotation of redundant information and using representations and terminology inspired by traditional Arabic syntax. We describe CATiB's representation and annotation procedure, and report on inter-annotator agreement and speed.

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