@inproceedings{cd3be169517c48e2992b17d5fe6c5da0,
title = "DIRA: Dialectal Arabic Information Retrieval Assistant",
abstract = "DIRA is a query expansion tool that generates search terms in Standard Arabic and/or its dialects when provided with queries in English or Standard Arabic. The retrieval of dialectal Arabic text has recently become necessary due to the increase of dialectal content on social media. DIRA addresses the challenges of retrieving information in Arabic dialects, which have significant linguistic differences from Standard Arabic. To our knowledge, DIRA is the only tool in existence that automatically generates dialect search terms with relevant morphological variations from English or Standard Arabic query terms.",
author = "Arfath Pasha and Mohammad Al-Badrashiny and Mohamed Altantawy and Nizar Habash and Manoj Pooleery and Owen Rambow and Roth, {Ryan M.} and Mona Diab",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Companion Volume of the Proceedings: System Demonstrations. All rights reserved.; 6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 ; Conference date: 14-10-2013",
year = "2013",
language = "English (US)",
series = "6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Companion Volume of the Proceedings: System Demonstrations",
publisher = "Asian Federation of Natural Language Processing",
pages = "13--16",
editor = "Kentaro Torisawa and Hang Li",
booktitle = "6th International Joint Conference on Natural Language Processing, IJCNLP 2013 - Companion Volume of the Proceedings",
}