Taja Corpus

Linguistically Tagged Written Algerian Judeo-Arabic Corpus

Bibliographic Data

ID17823915
AuthorsOfra Tirosh-Becker (0000-0002-9234-1472, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, corresponding author), Oren M Becker (0000-0002-9164-6784)
Year2022
Volume10
Issue1
Pages24-53
Publication date2022-06-20
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of Jewish Languages (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2213-4387 • E-ISSN: 2213-4638
PublisherBrill (PUBLISHER • NL)
DOI10.1163/22134638-bja10020
OpenAlexW4284685632
LanguageEN
References cited21

The Tagged Algerian Judeo-Arabic ( TAJA ) corpus is the first linguistically annotated corpus of any Judeo-Arabic dialect regardless of geography and period. The corpus is a genre-diverse collection of written Modern Algerian Judeo-Arabic texts, encompassing translations of the Bible and of liturgical texts, commentaries and original Judeo-Arabic books and journals. The TAJA corpus was manually annotated with parts-of-speech ( POS ) tags and detailed morphology tags. The goal of the new corpus is twofold. First, it preserves this endangered Judeo-Arabic language, expanding on previous fieldwork and going beyond the study of individual written texts. The corpus has already enabled us to make strides towards a grammar of written Algerian Judeo-Arabic. Second, this tagged corpus serves as a foundation for the development of Judeo-Arabic-specific Natural Language Processing ( NLP ) tools, which allow automatic POS tagging and morphological annotation of large collections of yet untapped texts in Algerian Judeo-Arabic and other Judeo-Arabic varieties

Annotation · Arabic · Corpus linguistics · Grammar · Linguistics · Natural language processing · Semitic languages · Computer Science · Historical and Linguistic Studies · Language, Linguistics, Cultural Analysis · Natural Language Processing Techniques · Philosophy · Artificial Intelligence