Abstract
We present a large-scale 26,000-lemma leveled readability lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic. The lexicon was manually annotated in triplicate by language professionals from three regions in the Arab world. The annotations show a high degree of agreement; and major differences were limited to regional variations. Comparing lemma readability levels with their frequencies provided good insights in the benefits and pitfalls of frequency-based readability approaches. The lexicon will be publicly available.- Anthology ID:
- 2020.lrec-1.373
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2020
- Address:
- Marseille, France
- Editors:
- Nicoletta Calzolari, Frédéric Béchet, Philippe Blache, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Hélène Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association
- Note:
- Pages:
- 3053–3062
- Language:
- English
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.373
- DOI:
- Bibkey:
- Cite (ACL):
- Muhamed Al Khalil, Nizar Habash, and Zhengyang Jiang. 2020. A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3053–3062, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.
- Cite (Informal):
- A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic (Al Khalil et al., LREC 2020)
- Copy Citation:
- PDF:
- https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.373.pdf
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@inproceedings{al-khalil-etal-2020-large, title = "A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for {S}tandard {A}rabic", author = "Al Khalil, Muhamed and Habash, Nizar and Jiang, Zhengyang", editor = "Calzolari, Nicoletta and B{\'e}chet, Fr{\'e}d{\'e}ric and Blache, Philippe and Choukri, Khalid and Cieri, Christopher and Declerck, Thierry and Goggi, Sara and Isahara, Hitoshi and Maegaard, Bente and Mariani, Joseph and Mazo, H{\'e}l{\`e}ne and Moreno, Asuncion and Odijk, Jan and Piperidis, Stelios", booktitle = "Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference", month = may, year = "2020", address = "Marseille, France", publisher = "European Language Resources Association", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.373", pages = "3053--3062", abstract = "We present a large-scale 26,000-lemma leveled readability lexicon for Modern Standard Arabic. The lexicon was manually annotated in triplicate by language professionals from three regions in the Arab world. The annotations show a high degree of agreement; and major differences were limited to regional variations. Comparing lemma readability levels with their frequencies provided good insights in the benefits and pitfalls of frequency-based readability approaches. The lexicon will be publicly available.", language = "English", ISBN = "979-10-95546-34-4", }
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Markdown (Informal)
[A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic](https://aclanthology.org/2020.lrec-1.373) (Al Khalil et al., LREC 2020)
- A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic (Al Khalil et al., LREC 2020)
ACL
- Muhamed Al Khalil, Nizar Habash, and Zhengyang Jiang. 2020. A Large-Scale Leveled Readability Lexicon for Standard Arabic. In Proceedings of the Twelfth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pages 3053–3062, Marseille, France. European Language Resources Association.