@inproceedings{1b59f977ada641daa13ac07e67fbe90a,
title = "The First QALB Shared Task on Automatic Text Correction for Arabic",
abstract = "We present a summary of the first shared task on automatic text correction for Arabic text. The shared task received 18 systems submissions from nine teams in six countries and represented a diversity of approaches. Our report includes an overview of the QALB corpus which was the source of the datasets used for training and evaluation, an overview of participating systems, results of the competition and an analysis of the results and systems.",
author = "Behrang Mohit and Alla Rozovskaya and Nizar Habash and Wajdi Zaghouani and Ossama Obeid",
note = "Funding Information: We would like to thank the organizing committee of EMNLP-2014 and its Arabic NLP workshop and also the shared task participants for their ideas and support. We thank Al Jazeera News (and especially, Khalid Judia) for providing the user comments portion of the QALB corpus. We also thank the QALB project annotators: Hoda Fathy, Dhoha Abid, Mariem Fekih, Anissa Jrad, Hoda Ibrahim, Noor Alzeer, Samah Lakhal, Jihene Wefi, Elsherif Mahmoud and Hossam El-Husseini. This publication was made possible by grants NPRP-4-1058-1-168 and YSREP-1-018-1-004 from the Qatar National Research Fund (a member of the Qatar Foundation). The statements made herein are solely the responsibility of the authors. Nizar Habash performed most of his contribution to this paper while he was at the Center for Computational Learning Systems at Columbia University. Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright}2014 Association for Computational Linguistics; EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, ANLP 2014 ; Conference date: 25-10-2014",
year = "2014",
language = "English (US)",
series = "ANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings",
publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)",
pages = "39--47",
editor = "Nizar Habash and Stephan Vogel",
booktitle = "ANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings",
}