Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic

Nizar Habash; Ryan Roth; Owen Rambow; Ramy Eskander; Nadi Tomeh

Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic

Nizar Habash
, Ryan Roth
, Owen Rambow
, Ramy Eskander
, Nadi Tomeh

Linguistics

Columbia University

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

113 Scopus citations

Abstract

The many differences between Dialectal Arabic and Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) pose a challenge to the majority of Arabic natural language processing tools, which are designed for MSA. In this paper, we retarget an existing state-of-The-Art MSA morphological tagger to Egyptian Arabic (ARZ). Our evaluation demonstrates that our ARZ morphology tagger outperforms its MSA variant on ARZ input in terms of accuracy in part-of-speech tagging, diacritization, lemmatization and tokenization; and in terms of utility for ARZ-to- English statistical machine translation.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics
Subtitle of host publication	Human Language Technologies
Publisher	Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL)
Pages	426-432
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781937284473
State	Published - 2013
Event	2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013 - Atlanta, United States Duration: Jun 9 2013 → Jun 14 2013

Publication series

Name	NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference

Conference

Conference	2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013
Country/Territory	United States
City	Atlanta
Period	06/9/13 → 06/14/13

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Habash, N., Roth, R., Rambow, O., Eskander, R., & Tomeh, N. (2013). Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies (pp. 426-432). (NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference). Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL).

Habash, Nizar ; Roth, Ryan ; Rambow, Owen et al. / Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic. Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), 2013. pp. 426-432 (NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference).

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Habash, N, Roth, R, Rambow, O, Eskander, R & Tomeh, N 2013, Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic. in Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference, Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), pp. 426-432, 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, NAACL HLT 2013, Atlanta, United States, 06/9/13.

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Habash N, Roth R, Rambow O, Eskander R, Tomeh N. Morphological analysis and disambiguation for dialectal Arabic. In Proceedings of the 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies. Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). 2013. p. 426-432. (NAACL HLT 2013 - 2013 Conference of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics: Human Language Technologies, Proceedings of the Main Conference).

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