- A. Hawwari, Mohammed Attia, Mona T. Diab. 2014. A Framework for the Classification and Annotation of Multiword Expressions in Dialectal Arabic. Abstract: In this paper we describe a framework for classifying and annotating Egyptian Arabic Multiword Expressions (EMWE) in a specialized computational lexical resource. The framework intends to encompass comprehensive linguistic information for each MWE including: a. phonological and orthographic information; b. POS tags; c. structural information for the phrase structure of the expression; d. lexicographic classification; e. semantic classification covering semantic fields and semantic relations; f. degree of idiomaticity where we adopt a three-level rating scale; g. pragmatic information in the form of usage labels; h. Modern Standard Arabic equivalents and English translations, thereby rendering our resource a three-way ‐ Egyptian Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic and English ‐ repository for MWEs.
