Abstract: This paper describes the creation of the new Bangor Arabic Annotated Corpus (BAAC) which is a Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) corpus that comprises 50K words manually annotated by parts-of-speech. For evaluating the quality of the corpus, the Kappa coefficient and a direct percent agreement for each tag were calculated for the new corpus and a Kappa value of 0.956 was obtained, with an average observed agreement of 94.25%. The corpus was used to evaluate the widely used Madamira Arabic part-of-speech tagger and to further investigate compression models for text compressed using part-of-speech tags. Also, a new annotation tool was developed and employed for the annotation process of BAAC.

Ibrahim S Alkhazi and William J. Teahan, “BAAC: Bangor Arabic Annotated Corpus” International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications(IJACSA), 9(11), 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091120

@article{Alkhazi2018,
title = {BAAC: Bangor Arabic Annotated Corpus},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091120},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2018.091120},
year = {2018},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {9},
number = {11},
author = {Ibrahim S Alkhazi and William J. Teahan}
}