An XML-based semantic parser for traditional arabic

Parsing is an essential step in most of Natural Language Processing (NLP) systems. It is mainly concerned with determining the grammatical position of each word in a sentence, and how words can be put together to form a correct sentence according to a certain grammar. In this paper, we present the architecture of a bottom-up semantic parser for traditional Arabic language. This parser is based on a Unification Based Grammar (UBG) representation of traditional Arabic grammar, and is implemented using Extensible Markup Language (XML). Moreover, we provide a set of traditional Arabic grammar rules that can be used in future results.