Maknuune: A Large Open Palestinian Arabic Lexicon
This provides a foundational resource for researchers and developers working on natural language processing for the Palestinian Arabic dialect, though it is incremental as it builds on existing lexicon creation methods.
The authors tackled the lack of resources for Palestinian Arabic by creating Maknuune, a large open lexicon with over 36K entries, including diacritized orthography, phonological transcription, and English glosses.
We present Maknuune, a large open lexicon for the Palestinian Arabic dialect. Maknuune has over 36K entries from 17K lemmas, and 3.7K roots. All entries include diacritized Arabic orthography, phonological transcription and English glosses. Some entries are enriched with additional information such as broken plurals and templatic feminine forms, associated phrases and collocations, Standard Arabic glosses, and examples or notes on grammar, usage, or location of collected entry.