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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Arabic-L: Wed 19 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Moderator: Dilworth Parkinson <</span><a href="mailto:dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu" style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif" target="_blank">dilworth_parkinson@byu.edu</a><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


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<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">1)</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Date: </span><span style="font-size:13px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">19 Feb 2014</span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">From: </span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexis Neme <<a href="mailto:alexis.neme@gmail.com" target="_blank">alexis.neme@gmail.com</a>></span><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">

<span style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">Subject: </span><font face="arial, sans-serif">Broken Plural Evaluatoin Test Set Available</font><br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">


<br style="font-size:13.333333969116211px;font-family:arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Dear Members,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We are pleased to announce that the evaluation test set for modelling the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">broken plural  (cf. Neme, Laporte, 2013) is now available since February,</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> 5th and distributed with Unitex Corpus Processor</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The 267 broken plurals with/without agglutinations can be obtained and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">listed in a concordance.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The corpus has been preprocessed by Unitex with the PRIM dictionary of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">broken plurals (Neme, Laporte, 2013) and Neme's (2011) dictionary of verbs.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">We selected three documents totaling 3 550 tokens (about 10 pages) and</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">containing scientific popularization about three topics from the Nemlar</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Corpus: pollution and fishing in Egypt, earthquakes, and quality of water.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">During the construction of our lexicon of BPs, we did not use any part of</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">the corpus: our sources of information were handbooks, reference</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">dictionaries and native speaker competence. Thus, the evaluation tool is</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">independent from the evaluated resource.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- To access the annotated corpus, open Fishing-Earthquakes-Water.snt in the</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Unitex/Arabic/Corpus. For more details,  see</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">readme_Fishing-Earthquakes-</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Water.txt in sub-directory Arabic\corpus) ....</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Cheers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Alexis</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Downloads</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Neme, Laporte, 2013. Pattern-and-Root Inflectional Morphology: the Arabic</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">broken plural (</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254861185_Pattern-and-root_inflectional_morphology_the_Arabic_broken_plural?fulltextDialog=true&ev=prf_pub_xaddfulltext" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">https://www.researchgate.net/publication/254861185_Pattern-and-root_inflectional_morphology_the_Arabic_broken_plural?fulltextDialog=true&ev=prf_pub_xaddfulltext</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Unitex Corpus Processor (</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

<a href="http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/zips/Unitex3.1beta.zip" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px" target="_blank">http://www-igm.univ-mlv.fr/~unitex/zips/Unitex3.1beta.zip</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">

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