Abstract
Dialectal Arabic (DA) poses serious challenges for Natural Language Processing (NLP). The number and sophistication of tools and datasets in DA are very limited in comparison to Modern Standard Arabic (MSA) and other languages. MSA tools do not effectively model DA which makes the direct use of MSA NLP tools for handling dialects impractical. This is particularly a challenge for the creation of tools to support learning Arabic as a living language on the web, where authentic material can be found in both MSA and DA. In this paper, we present the Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant (DALILA), a Chrome extension that utilizes cutting-edge Arabic dialect NLP research to assist learners and non-native speakers in understanding text written in either MSA or DA. DALILA provides dialectal word analysis and English gloss corresponding to each word.- Anthology ID:
- L16-1175
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16)
- Month:
- May
- Year:
- 2016
- Address:
- Portorož, Slovenia
- Venue:
- LREC
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- European Language Resources Association (ELRA)
- Note:
- Pages:
- 1098–1102
- Language:
- URL:
- https://aclanthology.org/L16-1175
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- Salam Khalifa, Houda Bouamor, and Nizar Habash. 2016. DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant. In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC'16), pages 1098–1102, Portorož, Slovenia. European Language Resources Association (ELRA).
- Cite (Informal):
- DALILA: The Dialectal Arabic Linguistic Learning Assistant (Khalifa et al., LREC 2016)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingestion-script-update/L16-1175.pdf