Spoken arabic dialect identification using phonotactic modeling

Fadi Biadsy; Julia Hirschberg; Nizar Habash

Spoken arabic dialect identification using phonotactic modeling

Fadi Biadsy, Julia Hirschberg, Nizar Habash

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The Arabic language is a collection of multiple variants, among which Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) has a special status as the formal written standard language of the media, culture and education across the Arab world. The other variants are informal spoken dialects that are the media of communication for daily life. Arabic dialects differ substantially from MSA and each other in terms of phonology, morphology, lexical choice and syntax. In this paper, we describe a system that automatically identifies the Arabic dialect (Gulf, Iraqi, Levantine, Egyptian and MSA) of a speaker given a sample of his/her speech. The phonotactic approach we use proves to be effective in identifying these dialects with considerable overall accuracy - 81.60% using 30s test utterances.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	53-61
Number of pages	9
State	Published - 2009
Event	EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009 - Athens, Greece Duration: Mar 31 2009 → …

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Conference	EACL 2009 Workshop on Computational Approaches to Semitic Languages, SEMITIC@EACL 2009
Country/Territory	Greece
City	Athens
Period	3/31/09 → …

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Computational Theory and Mathematics
Software
Linguistics and Language

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