Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography

Nizar Habash; Fadhl Eryani; Salam Khalifa; Owen Rambow; Dana Abdulrahim; Alexander Erdmann; Reem Faraj; Wajdi Zaghouani; Houda Bouamor; Nasser Zalmout; Sara Hassan; Faisal Al-Shargi; Sakhar Alkhereyf; Basma Abdulkareem; Ramy Eskander; Mohammad Salameh; Hind Saddiki

Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography

Nizar Habash
, Fadhl Eryani
, Salam Khalifa
, Owen Rambow
, Dana Abdulrahim
, Alexander Erdmann
, Reem Faraj
, Wajdi Zaghouani
, Houda Bouamor
, Nasser Zalmout
, Sara Hassan
, Faisal Al-Shargi
, Sakhar Alkhereyf
, Basma Abdulkareem
, Ramy Eskander
, Mohammad Salameh
, Hind Saddiki

Linguistics

Stony Brook University

New York University Abu Dhabi
University of Bahrain
Columbia University
Hamad bin Khalifa University
Carnegie Mellon University in Qatar
Univisität Leipzig

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › peer-review

61 Scopus citations

Abstract

We present a unified set of guidelines and resources for conventional orthography of dialectal Arabic. While Standard Arabic has well defined orthographic standards, none of the Arabic dialects do today. Previous efforts on conventionalizing the dialectal orthography have focused on specific dialects and made often ad hoc decisions. In this work, we present a common set of guidelines and meta-guidelines and apply them to 28 Arab city dialects from Rabat to Muscat. These guidelines and their connected resources are being used by three large Arabic dialect processing projects in three universities.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
Editors	Nicoletta Calzolari, Khalid Choukri, Christopher Cieri, Thierry Declerck, Sara Goggi, Koiti Hasida, Hitoshi Isahara, Bente Maegaard, Joseph Mariani, Helene Mazo, Asuncion Moreno, Jan Odijk, Stelios Piperidis, Takenobu Tokunaga
Publisher	European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
Pages	3628-3637
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Electronic)	9791095546009
State	Published - 2018
Event	11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018 - Miyazaki, Japan Duration: May 7 2018 → May 12 2018

Publication series

Name	LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation

Conference

Conference	11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018
Country/Territory	Japan
City	Miyazaki
Period	05/7/18 → 05/12/18

Keywords

Conventions
Dialectal Arabic
Morphology
Orthography
Phonology

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Habash, N., Eryani, F., Khalifa, S., Rambow, O., Abdulrahim, D., Erdmann, A., Faraj, R., Zaghouani, W., Bouamor, H., Zalmout, N., Hassan, S., Al-Shargi, F., Alkhereyf, S., Abdulkareem, B., Eskander, R., Salameh, M., & Saddiki, H. (2018). Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography. In N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, C. Cieri, T. Declerck, S. Goggi, K. Hasida, H. Isahara, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, H. Mazo, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis, & T. Tokunaga (Eds.), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (pp. 3628-3637). (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation). European Language Resources Association (ELRA).

Habash, Nizar ; Eryani, Fadhl ; Khalifa, Salam et al. / Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. editor / Nicoletta Calzolari ; Khalid Choukri ; Christopher Cieri ; Thierry Declerck ; Sara Goggi ; Koiti Hasida ; Hitoshi Isahara ; Bente Maegaard ; Joseph Mariani ; Helene Mazo ; Asuncion Moreno ; Jan Odijk ; Stelios Piperidis ; Takenobu Tokunaga. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018. pp. 3628-3637 (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

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Habash, N, Eryani, F, Khalifa, S, Rambow, O, Abdulrahim, D, Erdmann, A, Faraj, R, Zaghouani, W, Bouamor, H, Zalmout, N, Hassan, S, Al-Shargi, F, Alkhereyf, S, Abdulkareem, B, Eskander, R, Salameh, M & Saddiki, H 2018, Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography. in N Calzolari, K Choukri, C Cieri, T Declerck, S Goggi, K Hasida, H Isahara, B Maegaard, J Mariani, H Mazo, A Moreno, J Odijk, S Piperidis & T Tokunaga (eds), LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, European Language Resources Association (ELRA), pp. 3628-3637, 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2018, Miyazaki, Japan, 05/7/18.

Unified guidelines and resources for Arabic dialect orthography. / Habash, Nizar; Eryani, Fadhl; Khalifa, Salam et al.
LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. ed. / Nicoletta Calzolari; Khalid Choukri; Christopher Cieri; Thierry Declerck; Sara Goggi; Koiti Hasida; Hitoshi Isahara; Bente Maegaard; Joseph Mariani; Helene Mazo; Asuncion Moreno; Jan Odijk; Stelios Piperidis; Takenobu Tokunaga. European Language Resources Association (ELRA), 2018. p. 3628-3637 (LREC 2018 - 11th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation).

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