A Large Terminological Dictionary of Arabic Compound Words

NooJ is a linguistic development environment that allows formalizing complex linguistic phenomena such as compound words generation, processing as well as analysis. We will take advantage of NooJ’s linguistic engine strength in order to create a new large coverage terminological compound word’s dictionary for Modern Standard Arabic language. Classifying and annotating Arabic compound words would have a major impact on the disambiguation of applications working with Arabic texts. The diverse analyzers, based on morphological aspect, are not able to recognize multiword expressions. Morphological analyzers usually separate compound expressions into single terms. Therefore recognizing the entire compound words is essential to preserve the semantic of texts and to provide a crucial resource for a better analysis and understanding of Arabic language.