TY - GEN
T1 - Computational Benchmarks for Egyptian Arabic Child Directed Speech
AU - Khalifa, Salam
AU - Qaddoumi, Abdelrahim
AU - Habash, Nizar
AU - Rambow, Owen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2026 Association for Computational Linguistics.
PY - 2026
Y1 - 2026
N2 - We present ARABABYTALK-EGY, an enriched release of the Egyptian Arabic CHILDES corpus, that opens the child-adult interactions genre to modern Arabic NLP research. Starting from the original CHILDES recordings and IPA transcriptions of caregiver-child sessions, we (i) map each IPA token to fully diacritized Arabic script, and (ii) add core part-of-speech tags and lemmas aligned with existing dialectal Arabic morphological resources. These layers yield ∼26K annotated tokens suitable for both text- and speech-based NLP tasks. We provide a benchmark on morphological disambiguation and Arabic ASR. We outline lexical and morphosyntactic differences between ARABABYTALK-EGY and general Egyptian Arabic resources, highlighting the value of genre-specific training data for language acquisition studies and Arabic speech technology.
AB - We present ARABABYTALK-EGY, an enriched release of the Egyptian Arabic CHILDES corpus, that opens the child-adult interactions genre to modern Arabic NLP research. Starting from the original CHILDES recordings and IPA transcriptions of caregiver-child sessions, we (i) map each IPA token to fully diacritized Arabic script, and (ii) add core part-of-speech tags and lemmas aligned with existing dialectal Arabic morphological resources. These layers yield ∼26K annotated tokens suitable for both text- and speech-based NLP tasks. We provide a benchmark on morphological disambiguation and Arabic ASR. We outline lexical and morphosyntactic differences between ARABABYTALK-EGY and general Egyptian Arabic resources, highlighting the value of genre-specific training data for language acquisition studies and Arabic speech technology.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/105040587493
U2 - 10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.102
DO - 10.18653/v1/2026.eacl-long.102
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:105040587493
T3 - EACL 2026 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Proceedings of the Conference, Vol. 1 - (Long Papers)
SP - 2296
EP - 2307
BT - Long Papers
A2 - Demberg, Vera
A2 - Inui, Kentaro
A2 - Marquez Villodre, Lluis
PB - Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
T2 - 19th Conference of the European Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, EACL 2026
Y2 - 24 March 2026 through 29 March 2026
ER -