Abstract
In cases in which there is no standard orthography for a language or language variant, written texts will display a variety of orthographic choices. This is problematic for natural language processing (NLP) because it creates spurious data sparseness. We study the transformation of spontaneously spelled Egyptian Arabic into a conventionalized orthography which we have previously proposed for NLP purposes. We show that a two-stage process can reduce divergences from this standard by 69%, making subsequent processing of Egyptian Arabic easier.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
| Subtitle of host publication | Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference |
| Publisher | Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL) |
| Pages | 585-595 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781937284473 |
| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013 - Atlanta, United States Duration: Jun 9 2013 → Jun 14 2013 |
Publication series
| Name | NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference |
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Other
| Other | 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013 |
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| Country | United States |
| City | Atlanta |
| Period | 6/9/13 → 6/14/13 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Computer Science Applications
- Linguistics and Language
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Eskander, R., Habash, N., Rambow, O., & Tomeh, N. (2013). Processing spontaneous orthography. In NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference (pp. 585-595). (NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).