A suite of tools for Arabic natural language processing: A UNL approach

Abstract

This paper introduces the UNL framework as a collaborative framework that encourages and promotes the participation of linguists and non-linguists in the development of an integral natural language processing workbench. The UNL workbench includes a multitude of user-friendly back-end and front-end applications that facilitate the process of learning the UNL basics, participating in the development of resources within the UNL framework, as well as applications that perform several NLP tasks such as machine translation and editing. This workbench claims the ability to analyze automatically natural languages into their abstract semantic meanings, with the aim of finding the common denominator between all languages.