2024/06/06 by Mustafa Jarrar, Jarrar, Mustafa, Tymaa Hammouda +1 · 2 citations
Arts and Humanities · Business, Management and Accounting · #Archaeology and Historical Studies #Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI) #Computation and Language (cs.CL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Islamic Finance and Banking Studies #Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2406.06598
openalex publication_date 2024/06/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We present Qabas, a novel open-source Arabic lexicon designed for NLP applications. The novelty of Qabas lies in its synthesis of 110 lexicons. Specifically, Qabas lexical entries (lemmas) are assembled by linking lemmas from 110 lexicons. Furthermore, Qabas lemmas are also linked to 12 morphologically annotated corpora (about 2M tokens), making it the first Arabic lexicon to be linked to lexicons and corpora. Qabas was developed semi-automatically, utilizing a mapping framework and a web-based tool. Compared with other lexicons, Qabas stands as the most extensive Arabic lexicon, encompassing about 58K lemmas (45K nominal lemmas, 12.5K verbal lemmas, and 473 functional-word lemmas). Qabas is open-source and accessible online at https://sina.birzeit.edu/qabas.