Papers with MADAR
A Spelling Correction Corpus for Multiple Arabic Dialects (2020.lrec-1)
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| Challenge: | Arabic dialects are non-standard varieties of Arabic commonly spoken across the Arab world, but lack standard orthographies. |
| Approach: | They present a corpus of 10,000 sentences from five Arabic city dialects represented in the Conventional Orthography for Dialectal Arabic (CODA) they use a bootstrapping technique to speed up annotation and compare similarity between dialects before and after CODA annotation. |
| Outcome: | The proposed method speeds up the annotation process and shows similarity between the dialects before and after CODA annotation. |
The MADAR Arabic Dialect Corpus and Lexicon (L18-1)
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Houda Bouamor, Nizar Habash, Mohammad Salameh, Wajdi Zaghouani, Owen Rambow, Dana Abdulrahim, Ossama Obeid, Salam Khalifa, Fadhl Eryani, Alexander Erdmann, Kemal Oflazer
| Challenge: | Using a corpus of 25 Arabic city dialects and a lexicon of 1,045 concepts, we study 25 cities in a travel domain . focus on cities opens new avenues for research from dialectology to dialect identification and machine translation. |
| Approach: | They present two Arabic language resources that are part of the Multi Arabic Dialect Applications and Resources project. |
| Outcome: | The proposed resources are the first of their kind in terms of their coverage and fine granularity. |