Verb noun collocations in Arabic and their patterns in lexicography

This article is part of a study aiming to disambiguate Arabic verb-noun collocation in Machine Translation (MT) and Natural Language Processing (NLP). This article investigates verb noun collocation in the Arabic language from a linguistic point of view. It reviews the main theoretical studies on collocation including early indications, concept, terminology and classification of collocation in the Arabic language. In addition to that, it also reviews contemporary collocation dictionaries and verb-noun collocation patterns and the possibility of using both traditional and current lexicography resources in sense disambiguation for NLP and MT. The final part of this article is dedicated to a suggested eclectic model of verb-noun collocation patterns in Arabic