CLMay 29, 2018

Automatic Identification of Arabic expressions related to future events in Lebanon's economy

arXiv:1805.11603v13 citations
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This addresses the need for automated analysis of economic forecasts in Arabic for Lebanon, but it is incremental as it applies existing NLP tools to a new domain-specific dataset.

The paper tackles the problem of automatically identifying future economic events in Lebanon from Arabic texts by building a corpus, studying linguistic expressions, and developing a method using SLCSAS and AlKhalil Morpho Sys, with validation showing promising results.

In this paper, we propose a method to automatically identify future events in Lebanon's economy from Arabic texts. Challenges are threefold: first, we need to build a corpus of Arabic texts that covers Lebanon's economy; second, we need to study how future events are expressed linguistically in these texts; and third, we need to automatically identify the relevant textual segments accordingly. We will validate this method on a constructed corpus form the web and show that it has very promising results. To do so, we will be using SLCSAS, a system for semantic analysis, based on the Contextual Explorer method, and "AlKhalil Morpho Sys" system for morpho-syntactic analysis.

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