| Challenge: | Demo paper describes a web-based system for automatic dialect identification for Arabic text. |
| Approach: | They present a web-based system for automatic dialect identification for Arabic text that distinguishes between 25 Arab cities and Modern Standard Arabic. |
| Outcome: | The proposed system distinguishes among the dialects of 25 Arab cities (from Rabat to Muscat) and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). |
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