Building a lexical semantic resource for Arabic morphological Patterns

We present a pilot study for building an Arabic morphological Pattern Net as a lexical semantic resource. In this paper, a limited number of Arabic Morphological Patterns have been selected in order to analyze the structure and behavior of some verbs in the Arabic PropBank [19]. Our goal is to study whether there is a direct relationship between morphological patterns and verbal semantic roles. The approach to building our morphological patterns´ database is based on linguistic generalization of the semantic roles of the verbal predicates. The results obtained show the feasibility of a more comprehensive future study.