Processing spontaneous orthography

Ramy Eskander; Nizar Habash; Owen Rambow; Nadi Tomeh

Processing spontaneous orthography

Ramy Eskander, Nizar Habash, Owen Rambow, Nadi Tomeh

Computer Science

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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)
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

Other

Other	2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	6/9/13 → 6/14/13

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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).

Processing spontaneous orthography. / Eskander, Ramy; Habash, Nizar; Rambow, Owen; Tomeh, Nadi.

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), 2013. p. 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).

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

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. 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), pp. 585-595, 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013, Atlanta, United States, 6/9/13.

Eskander R, Habash N, Rambow O, Tomeh N. 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. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2013. p. 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).

Eskander, Ramy ; Habash, Nizar ; Rambow, Owen ; Tomeh, Nadi. / Processing spontaneous orthography. 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), 2013. 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).

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