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Building a Corpus for Palestinian Arabic: a Preliminary Study

  • Birzeit University
  • New York University Abu Dhabi

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Abstract

This paper presents preliminary results in building an annotated corpus of the Palestinian Arabic dialect. The corpus consists of about 43K words, stemming from diverse resources. The paper discusses some linguistic facts about the Palestinian dialect, compared with the Modern Standard Arabic, especially in terms of morphological, orthographic, and lexical variations, and suggests some directions to resolve the challenges these differences pose to the annotation goal. Furthermore, we present two pilot studies that investigate whether existing tools for processing Modern Standard Arabic and Egyptian Arabic can be used to speed up the annotation process of our Palestinian Arabic corpus.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings
EditorsNizar Habash, Stephan Vogel
PublisherAssociation for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages18-27
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781937284961
Publication statusPublished - 25 Oct 2014
Externally publishedYes
EventEMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, ANLP 2014 - Doha, Qatar
Duration: 25 Oct 2014 → …

Publication series

NameANLP 2014 - EMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, Proceedings

Conference

ConferenceEMNLP 2014 Workshop on Arabic Natural Language Processing, ANLP 2014
Country/TerritoryQatar
CityDoha
Period25/10/14 → …

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