Classification and deterministic PropBank annotation of predicative adjectives in Arabic

In Arabic, adjectives can occur as the predicating elements in sentences without verbs. Thus in the Arabic PropBank, we annotate these predicate adjectives similarly to verbs to provide meaningful representations for verbless sentences. In this paper, we present our analysis of the predicate adjectives and a framework for deterministically annotating their argument structure that approaches the accuracy of human annotators, which will be helpful in speeding up and expediting our annotation process.