Teaching Arabic Grammar using tree view representation

Abstract

This research aims to teach the basics of Arabic syntactic analysis for native and non- native speakers of Arabic. In this research, we apply the structural linguistic approach through employing a tree viewer application called PALMYRA 2.4 (a platform-independent graphical tool for syntactic dependency annotation supporting languages that require complex morphological tokenization.) in teaching sentence analysis. PALMYRA is configured to be compatible to any dependency parsing representation, and to enable annotating many different linguistic features. It uses an interface that relies on drag-and-drop utilities.