Automatic Romanization of Arabic Bibliographic Records

Fadhl Eryani, Nizar Habash

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Abstract

International library standards require cataloguers to tediously input Romanization of their catalogue records for the benefit of library users without specific language expertise. In this paper, we present the first reported results on the task of automatic Romanization of undiacritized Arabic bibliographic entries. This complex task requires the modeling of Arabic phonology, morphology, and even semantics. We collected a 2.5M word corpus of parallel Arabic and Romanized bibliographic entries, and benchmarked a number of models that vary in terms of complexity and resource dependence. Our best system reaches 89.3% exact word Romanization on a blind test set. We make our data and code publicly available.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationWANLP 2021 - 6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Proceedings of the Workshop
EditorsNizar Habash, Houda Bouamor, Hazem Hajj, Walid Magdy, Wajdi Zaghouani, Fethi Bougares, Nadi Tomeh, Ibrahim Abu Farha, Samia Touileb
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages213-218
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781954085091
StatePublished - 2021
Event6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, WANLP 2021 - Virtual, Kyiv, Ukraine
Duration: Apr 19 2021 → …

Publication series

NameWANLP 2021 - 6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, Proceedings of the Workshop

Conference

Conference6th Arabic Natural Language Processing Workshop, WANLP 2021
Country/TerritoryUkraine
CityVirtual, Kyiv
Period4/19/21 → …

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics
  • Software
  • Linguistics and Language

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