Arabic Coding Scheme
SSA has developed a number of tools for automated coding of Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). In addition to our coding capabilities, we also have a robust web reporting service, a large corpus of Arabic media documents and the capability to continuously download and analyze new media texts. The following is a brief description of each capability.

Arabic script does not separate words as unique text strings as in English. In order to analyze text and identify individual terms, SSA has developed a tool which first parses MSA text into individual words, and then tags each term with relevant grammatical information. This tool will:

• Remove attached pronouns, preceding determiners, and preceding prepositions
• Identify parts of speech for all words
• Standardize spellings of verbs and sound plural forms of nouns and adjectives
• Identify tense, gender, number, and verb form of words
• Identify participles and verbal nouns

The entity extraction and identification tools identify references to specific entities and the people that make up or are affiliated with that entity and label them as part of that entity. These tools identify reference variants, standardize their spellings, and aggregate them at country and/or group levels. In addition to general purpose entity extraction routines, specific routines identify references to all official country names, national adjectives, and capital cities as per US government list of FIPS Codes, and more comprehensive entity identification routines have been developed for:

America Israel Palestine Fatah Hamas

Palestinian Islamic Jihad Hizbullah Lebanon Iraq