@inproceedings{taji-etal-2017-universal,
    title = "{U}niversal {D}ependencies for {A}rabic",
    author = "Taji, Dima  and
      Habash, Nizar  and
      Zeman, Daniel",
    editor = "Habash, Nizar  and
      Diab, Mona  and
      Darwish, Kareem  and
      El-Hajj, Wassim  and
      Al-Khalifa, Hend  and
      Bouamor, Houda  and
      Tomeh, Nadi  and
      El-Haj, Mahmoud  and
      Zaghouani, Wajdi",
    booktitle = "Proceedings of the Third {A}rabic Natural Language Processing Workshop",
    month = apr,
    year = "2017",
    address = "Valencia, Spain",
    publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics",
    url = "https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-emnlp/W17-1320/",
    doi = "10.18653/v1/W17-1320",
    pages = "166--176",
    abstract = "We describe the process of creating NUDAR, a Universal Dependency treebank for Arabic. We present the conversion from the Penn Arabic Treebank to the Universal Dependency syntactic representation through an intermediate dependency representation. We discuss the challenges faced in the conversion of the trees, the decisions we made to solve them, and the validation of our conversion. We also present initial parsing results on NUDAR."
}