Paper Info
Title
Developing an Egyptian Arabic Treebank: Impact of Dialectal Morphology on Annotation and Tool Development.
Abstract
This paper describes the parallel development of an Egyptian Arabic Treebank and a morphological analyzer for Egyptian Arabic (CALIMA). By the very nature of Egyptian Arabic, the data collected is informal, for example Discussion Forum text, which we use for the treebank discussed here. In addition, Egyptian Arabic, like other Arabic dialects, is sufficiently different from Modem Standard Arabic (MSA) that tools and techniques developed for MSA cannot be simply transferred over to work on Egyptian Arabic work. In particular, a morphological analyzer for Egyptian Arabic is needed to mediate between the written text and the segmented, vocalized form used for the syntactic trees. This led to the necessity of a feedback loop between the treebank team and the analyzer team, as improvements in each area were fed to the other. Therefore, by necessity, there needed to be close cooperation between the annotation team and the tool development team, which was to their mutual benefit. Collaboration on this type of challenge, where tools and resources are limited, proved to be remarkably synergistic and opens the way to further fruitful work on Arabic dialects.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2014
LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION
Egyptian Arabic,Dialectal Treebank,Dialectal Morphological Analyzer
Field
DocType
Citations 
Annotation,Arabic,Computer science,Speech recognition,Modern Standard Arabic,Treebank,Artificial intelligence,Natural language processing,Linguistics,Egyptian Arabic,Syntax
Conference
13
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.64
8
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mohamed Maamouri111213.34
Ann Bies213620.02
Seth Kulick322129.66
Michael Ciul4130.64
Nizar Habash51833145.59
Ramy Eskander628418.18