@inproceedings{19f734b3bb5942c9b4fb20224f7abf67,
title = "Conventional orthography for dialectal Arabic",
abstract = "Dialectal Arabic (DA) refers to the day-to-day vernaculars spoken in the Arab world. DA lives side-by-side with the official language, Modern Standard Arabic (MSA). DA differs from MSA on all levels of linguistic representation, from phonology and morphology to lexicon and syntax. Unlike MSA, DA has no standard orthography since there are no Arabic dialect academies, nor is there a large edited body of dialectal literature that follows the same spelling standard. In this paper, we present CODA, a conventional orthography for dialectal Arabic; it is designed primarily for the purpose of developing computational models of Arabic dialects. We explain the design principles of CODA and provide a detailed description of its guidelines as applied to Egyptian Arabic.",
keywords = "Arabic, Dialects, Orthography",
author = "Nizar Habash and Mona Diab and Owen Rambow",
year = "2012",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012",
publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)",
pages = "711--718",
editor = "Dogan, \{Mehmet Ugur\} and Joseph Mariani and Asuncion Moreno and Sara Goggi and Khalid Choukri and Nicoletta Calzolari and Jan Odijk and Thierry Declerck and Bente Maegaard and Stelios Piperidis and Helene Mazo and Olivier Hamon",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012",
note = "8th International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation, LREC 2012 ; Conference date: 21-05-2012 Through 27-05-2012",
}