TY - GEN
T1 - Hierarchical Aggregation of Dialectal Data for Arabic Dialect Identification
AU - Baimukan, Nurpeiis
AU - Bouamor, Houda
AU - Habash, Nizar
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Arabic is a collection of dialectal variants that are historically related but significantly different. These differences can be seen across regions, countries, and even cities in the same countries. Previous work on Arabic Dialect identification has focused mainly on specific dialect levels (region, country, province, or city) using level-specific resources; and different efforts used different schemas and labels. In this paper, we present the first effort aiming at defining a standard unified three-level hierarchical schema (region-country-city) for dialectal Arabic classification. We map 29 different data sets to this unified schema, and use the common mapping to facilitate aggregating these data sets. We test the value of such aggregation by building language models and using them in dialect identification. We make our label mapping code and aggregated language models publicly available.
AB - Arabic is a collection of dialectal variants that are historically related but significantly different. These differences can be seen across regions, countries, and even cities in the same countries. Previous work on Arabic Dialect identification has focused mainly on specific dialect levels (region, country, province, or city) using level-specific resources; and different efforts used different schemas and labels. In this paper, we present the first effort aiming at defining a standard unified three-level hierarchical schema (region-country-city) for dialectal Arabic classification. We map 29 different data sets to this unified schema, and use the common mapping to facilitate aggregating these data sets. We test the value of such aggregation by building language models and using them in dialect identification. We make our label mapping code and aggregated language models publicly available.
KW - Arabic Dialects
KW - Dialect Identification
KW - Language Models
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85141333615
T3 - 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
SP - 4586
EP - 4596
BT - 2022 Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
A2 - Calzolari, Nicoletta
A2 - Bechet, Frederic
A2 - Blache, Philippe
A2 - Choukri, Khalid
A2 - Cieri, Christopher
A2 - Declerck, Thierry
A2 - Goggi, Sara
A2 - Isahara, Hitoshi
A2 - Maegaard, Bente
A2 - Mariani, Joseph
A2 - Mazo, Helene
A2 - Odijk, Jan
A2 - Piperidis, Stelios
PB - European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
T2 - 13th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, LREC 2022
Y2 - 20 June 2022 through 25 June 2022
ER -