Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet

Khalil Mrini, Francis Bond


Abstract
Moroccan Darija is a variant of Arabic with many influences. Using the Open Multilingual WordNet (OMW), we compare the lemmas in the Moroccan Darija Wordnet (MDW) with the standard Arabic, French and Spanish ones. We then compared the lemmas in each synset with their translation equivalents. Transliteration is used to bridge alphabet differences and match lemmas in the closest phonological way. The results put figures on the similarity Moroccan Darija has with Arabic, French and Spanish: respectively 42.0%, 2.8% and 2.2%.
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2018.gwc-1.46
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Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference
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January
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2018
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Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore
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Francis Bond, Piek Vossen, Christiane Fellbaum
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GWC
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SIGLEX
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Global Wordnet Association
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372–377
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Khalil Mrini and Francis Bond. 2018. Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet. In Proceedings of the 9th Global Wordnet Conference, pages 372–377, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Global Wordnet Association.
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Putting Figures on Influences on Moroccan Darija from Arabic, French and Spanish using the WordNet (Mrini & Bond, GWC 2018)
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