A Syntactic Lexicon for Arabic Verbs

In this paper, we present a modeling of the syntactic lexicon for Arabic verbs based on the Lexical Markup Framework. This ISO standard let us describe the lexical information in a simple way using general guidelines and enable the sharing of resources following the standard. We discuss the syntactic information associated to verbs and the model we propose to structure and represent the entries within the lexicon. To study the usability of the model, we implemented a rule-based system that translates a LMF syntactic resource into Type Description Language. The generated lexicon is used as input for a previously written HPSG grammar for Arabic built within the Language Knowledge Builder platform. Finally, we discuss improvements in parsing results and possible perspectives of this work.