Rule Based Approach for Arabic Part of Speech Tagging and Name Entity Recognition

Abstract

The aim of this study is to build a tool for Part of Speech (POS) tagging and Name Entity Recognition for Arabic Language, the approach used to build this tool is a rule base technique. The POS Tagger contains two phases:The first phase is to pass word into a lexicon phase, the second level is the morphological phase, and the tagset are (Noun, Verb and Determine). The Named-Entity detector will apply rules on the text and give the correct Labels for each word, the labels are Person(PERS), Location (LOC) and Organization (ORG).