| Challenge: | Emirati Arabic corpus is first large-scale morphologically manually annotated corpus . resources for dialectal Arabic NLP tasks are still lacking compared to those for modern standard Arabic (MSA). |
| Approach: | They propose to annotate a large-scale corpus of Emirati Arabic using a morphologically manually annotated corpus from eight Gumar novels . they discuss the guidelines for each part of the annotation components, and the annotation interface they use. |
| Outcome: | The annotated corpus includes about 200,000 words from eight Gumar novels in the Emirati Arabic variety. |
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