Parsing arabic dialects

David Chiang; Mona Diab; Nizar Habash; Owen Rambow; Safiullah Shareef

Parsing arabic dialects

David Chiang, Mona Diab, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Safiullah Shareef

Computer Science

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Abstract

The Arabic language is a collection of spoken dialects with important phonological, morphological, lexical, and syntactic differences, along with a standard written language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). Since the spoken dialects are not officially written, it is very costly to obtain adequate corpora to use for training dialect NLP tools such as parsers. In this paper, we address the problem of parsing transcribed spoken Levantine Arabic (LA). We do not assume the existence of any annotated LA corpus (except for development and testing), nor of a parallel corpus LAMSA. Instead, we use explicit knowledge about the relation between LA and MSA.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference
Pages	369-376
Number of pages	8
State	Published - 2006
Event	11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2006 - Trento, Italy Duration: Apr 3 2006 → Apr 7 2006

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Name	EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference

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Other	11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2006
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Trento
Period	4/3/06 → 4/7/06

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Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language

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Chiang, D., Diab, M., Habash, N., Rambow, O., & Shareef, S. (2006). Parsing arabic dialects. In EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference (pp. 369-376). (EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

Parsing arabic dialects. / Chiang, David; Diab, Mona; Habash, Nizar et al.
EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. 2006. p. 369-376 (EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Chiang, D, Diab, M, Habash, N, Rambow, O & Shareef, S 2006, Parsing arabic dialects. in EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference. EACL 2006 - 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, pp. 369-376, 11th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2006, Trento, Italy, 4/3/06.

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