Maknuune: A Large Open Palestinian Arabic Lexicon
Shahd Dibas, Christian Khairallah, Nizar Habash, Omar Fayez Sadi,, Tariq Sairafy, Karmel Sarabta, Abrar Ardah
TL;DR
Maknuune is a comprehensive open lexical resource for Palestinian Arabic, featuring extensive entries with phonological, grammatical, and usage information to support linguistic research and language technology development.
Contribution
It introduces a large, detailed Palestinian Arabic lexicon with rich annotations, filling a gap in resources for this dialect.
Findings
Over 36,000 entries covering 17,000 lemmas
Includes phonological transcriptions and grammatical details
Provides enriched information like plurals and usage notes
Abstract
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.
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TopicsNatural Language Processing Techniques · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Historical and Linguistic Studies